Borage is one of the stranger herbs you can grow. It's growth is ungainly, its leaves and stems are really hairy, its leaves are majorly succulent, and it has a really ugly name. What redeems borage are its highly unusual flowers and its reputed usefulness.

First, the flowers. They look a lot like falling stars, if falling stars were irridescent blue and pink. They're not big or especially showy, but the color is unique, and the overall effect is weird and very cool.

As for usefulness, I'm sure borage's emulscent properties are documented somewhere, but what always gets me is that they're supposed to taste like cucumbers. Like who would ever eat one of these hairy, slimy things? A plant for adventurous flower-growers and herbalists.