Planting guide

When to plant borage

Sky-blue starry flowers on a hairy, fast-growing herb that bees adore. In Melbourne it goes in Aug–Dec.

Start as: Seed, sown in place
Flowers in: 7–10 wks
Spacing: 45 cm
Depth: 1 cm
Sun: Full sun (6+ hours)
Water: Regular
Effort: Easy
Colours: blue, white, pink
Frost-tender: No

When it goes in

● means borage can go in that month, ○ means wait. Worked out from each town's climate zone and season, the way planting guides do it. Pick your town for the full list for that month.

Australian towns and cities
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Sydney	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Melbourne	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Brisbane	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Perth	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Adelaide	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Gold Coast	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Newcastle	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Sunshine Coast	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Canberra	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Central Coast	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Geelong	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Wollongong	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Hobart	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Townsville	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Cairns	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○
Toowoomba	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Darwin	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○
Ballarat	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Mandurah	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Bendigo	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Launceston	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Mackay	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Rockhampton	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Coffs Harbour	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Blue Mountains	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Bunbury	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Bundaberg	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Alice Springs	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Mildura	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Port Macquarie	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●

Around the world
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Auckland	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Wellington	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Christchurch	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
London	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Manchester	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Edinburgh	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Dublin	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
New York City	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Los Angeles	○	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Chicago	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Seattle	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Austin	○	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Toronto	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Vancouver	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Cape Town	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Johannesburg	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Singapore	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Mumbai	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●
Paris	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Berlin	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○