Published on 12, July, 2020
....aka Battle Of The Borage
There have been rumblings for the past week or so but I thought now would be as good a time as any to get the show started. Today I sowed between 16 and 20 seeds.
I thought it might be nice for any members who want to join in to sow borage seeds and chat about it. We all know bees and pollinators need a helping hand and this is a lovely plant we can have in our gardens to help. The flowers are pretty star shaped blue, sometimes pink or purple. You can eat the flowers or put in ice cubes and you can use the leaves to make borage fertiliser for the garden.
I thought it might be a nice way to unite online friends by doing something remote in real life.
It does self seed so I take no responsibility if you end up with more next year! The more the merrier. Apologies if you have no outdoor space. Maybe do a bit of guerilla gardening if you can
This post was inspired by Jamie (who I cannot tag for some reason) and Number
So lets help our wildlife!
"No-one can do everything but everyone can do something".
We have an awfully worrying dearth of bees this year.
By now our lavenders and wildflowers are usually smothered in all types of bees but I actually saw our first honey bee only today and have only seen a couple of buff tailed bees at all this year.
Also, very very few butterflies.
I am hoping it is due to the cooler weather and less sun. When we had sun last week I saw a speckled wood and a peacock butterfly on my walk. When we had warm weather earlier in the year I saw a Brimstone.
Ah, you are experiencing it too then?
I saw a Brimstone yesterday at Mottisfont.
Fingers crossed then that with the summer actually arriving at last, after an awful spring (at least in the south of England), nature may catch up