"Spider" wrote in message

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Yes, Bertie, it is usually used as a shade plant. It is a mystery why it's
not more free with its seed, since all its relatives (in the family
Boraginaceae) are generous seeders like F-M-N. They include Borage (of
course), Anchusa, Brunnera, Echium, Pulmonaria and Symphytum. All lovely
plants, but some rather too generous. They also share the mildew problem
in dry conditions, but that is a small price to pay and easily dealt with
in most cases by cutting back the foliage and improving watering.


Too much water down here in the southwest, so can't recollect when I last
had mildew.

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