Yep, the flowers are really that BLUE!!!!  They look like shooting stars.  Sometimes, it's called starflower.

 

Borage is an edible herb:  both flowers and leaves are edible.  They taste like cucumbers.  We put the flowers in salads, but the leaves are hairy, and feel funky in your mouth.  But...you can eat them and they won't kill you.  (See my article about edible flowers, back in August.)  Just go to Searching the site, and put in edible flowers.

 

Borage grows easily from seeds;  they actually self-seed in the garden.  We keep them in the garden to attract pollinators, and to deter Tomato hornworm.  Works GREAT!!!!  And they're pretty.  

 

We LOVE borage.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!!