Borage Seeds with Edible Flowers

Inside you will find borage seeds, labelled on the packaging as Borago seeds. The enclosed cooking recipe gives you one concrete way to use the flowers, and everything about growing them is printed straight onto the packaging, in four languages.

• Borage seeds (Borago officinalis)
• Blue flowers, edible
• Iodine-like taste according to the manufacturer
• Cooking recipe included
• Growing instructions in English, German, Italian and Spanish
• Packet around 13 cm tall
• For the garden, the balcony or a pot
• Made in France

The blue borage flowers are made for finishing salads. They bring colour to a plain bowl of leaves, and because they are edible you do not have to pick them out again before serving. How to use the flowers in one particular dish is set out in the recipe that comes with the packet. Anyone who has cooked with flowers knows the effect: a few scattered over the finished plate, and an everyday meal turns into something worth looking at. The taste of the flowers themselves is described by the manufacturer as iodine-like.

The seeds can be sown in the garden, on the balcony or in a pot. That makes the packet useful even if you have no bed at all, only a windowsill with room for a couple of containers. For families it is a manageable garden project: sow, water, wait, and eventually watch the first blue flowers open.

The instructions are printed onto the packet itself, so you need no extra paperwork. Because they come in four languages, you can pass the packet on to friends who do not read English.

As a small present the seed packet suits people who like gardening or cooking, because here the two come together. For Mother's Day, a birthday or Easter you can combine it with a pot or a hand trowel to make a little set. As a housewarming gift it has a pleasant side effect: it points the new residents straight towards their balcony or garden.

Do not put the enclosed recipe aside too quickly. It shows how the flowers can be used in the kitchen and is part of the gift. If you are giving several packets, tie them together with a handwritten card into a small gardening bundle.

What is included in the packet? The packet contains borage seeds (Borago officinalis) and a cooking recipe. The growing instructions are printed on the packaging.

Are the flowers really edible? Yes. The blue borage flowers are edible and are suited to finishing salads.

What do the flowers taste like? The manufacturer describes the taste of the flowers as iodine-like.

Which languages are the growing instructions in? English, German, Italian and Spanish, printed directly onto the packet.

Do I need a garden for this? No. The seeds can be grown in the garden, on the balcony or in a pot.