The blue flowers fill with nectar at an astonishing rate, replenishing their stores much faster than many other flowering plants. In my garden, borage self-seeds readily, returning each year.

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We think that bees can match all flowers, but it is not the case: most of them need to find the right match between the chemical properties of the plant and their own physiology when they pollinate.

The tale of the Dutch tulip craze is a cautionary one – the first example of an economic bubble. As a new exhibition of flower paintings opens in London, Alastair Sooke looks back.