#borage flower

[hoardingrecipes]

Seared Scallops with Spring Peas, Tarragon and Truffle Oil

[splungecoyote]

MLP Flowers Of Harmony Flash Magnus by kelseyleah (aka splungecoyote)

(whoops, almost forgot to post this here on Tumblr!)

 This is the 39th of my series designing clothes for ponies with a flower theme. Finished with the mane six, this time I picked the flowers based on the flora's meaning closest to what Flash Magnus seems to be associated with, keeping what colors suited him best in mind.

 Flash Magnus' flower is the Borage.  In the language of flowers it generally represents courage. Gave him a roman -like outfit, but it came out unintentionally girly, maybe?

[bunjammin]

A drink sounded nice so I made myself a gin and tonic this evening. Basically the extent of my cocktail knowledge. Never really enjoyed going out in my younger years. No bars, clubs, pubs, discotheques, saloons, speakeasies or brothels for this nervous fellow.

And the flower makes it fancy.

[pacificnorthwestessences]

Borage Flower Essence being made. I grew my organic borage plants from seed, but it was not easy to get to blooms because our local marmot loves young borage plants. One essence practitioner I know uses borage essence extensively as a companion to other essences in blends to provide courage when going through a difficult illness or personal transformation. I test borage for these situations, but foremost I have found borage likes to help with depression.

-Ava

Shop Borage Flower Essence.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[southern4perspective]

Borage seed harvest. July 21 2016

Borage has been a great companion flower in our garden beds this summer. It has done a great job of bringing in pollinators. Also, the flower and small leaves are very tasty with a light cucumber flavor. It was always a great experience to place a few flowers on top of an ice water. It’s now recorded in our memory banks as one of the smells and tastes of summer.

Children are well-suited for this type of work. They have small hands, are fond of gathering, and seem to be excited to place little things in little jars.

Here is a wiki link for further reading on Borage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borage

Fondly,

K

[coffeeandrosemary]

Enjoying vegan strawberry ice cream!

[cosmicfaeriewitch]

“The lovely, blue flowered borage, an introduction from Europe, is found growing occasionally in waste places in the northern tier of states. It is also cultivated quite widely in gardens. The nodding heads of star-like flowers gorw from a cluster of hairy, obovate leaves, altogether not much over a foot high.

 The leaves are dried when the plant is to be used medicinally, while the fresh, green leaves, which taste like cucumber, are pleasant in salads. The crushed leaves are a well-known ingredient of claret cup, and one may make a refreshing drink by combining them with lemon and sugar.

 The constituents of borage are mucilage, potassium nitrate, and calcium oxalate with other natural salts. The properties listed for it are refrigerant, demulcent, emollient, and diaphoretic. Recommended dose is 1 ounce of leaves infused in 1 pint of boiling water and taken in wine glass doses.

All writers since Roman times mention its exhilarating effect, and some ancient writers even say that it will cure mental illness. Another use of the leaves is as a poultice in inflammatory swellings, this presumably being due to their mucilaginous quality and to the healing power of the salts.

A good reason for growing borage in the garden is to use the leaves as a pleasant cucumber-like nibble; to enjoy the blue of the flowers; and to attract the honey bees who seem to prefer borage above any surrounding flowers and who, alone, have the proper apparatus to secure the honey and fertilize the flowers. there is much more that might be said about borage, but one can only urge that the reader buy a package of seed and grow this plant in his garden, for both health and pleasure.” 💙🍃

Cora Ruth Photography