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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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.

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.