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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Keith, check this out..
http://aidanbrooksspices.blogspot.com/2007/10/borage.html
I think it is definitely borage from the picture of the leaves..

EarthNSky wrote:
> I grow borage as a companion for tomatoes.
> It's about 3-5 ft tall, purple flowers, fuzzy,you can candy the 
> flowers-very good, pretty little things. Ah, the page finally loaded. 
> Keith, borage usually grows in the summer with tomatoes and peppers.  It 
> could be borage, but why would it still be so small this late in the 
> year?  It is not lambs ears, so my other fuzzy leaved ideas are mullein 
> and borage..  Mullein leaves are usually whiter-more gray-green than 
> that, but on the other hand, I don't recall a small borage plant having 
> leaves that large, nevertheless, I'm going with borage.


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