feeling slightly "phrenticke"...

...but not "lunaticke"...yet...


"The leaves and floures of Borrage put into wine make men and women glad and merry, driving away all sadnesse, dulnesse, and melancholy, as Dioscorides and Pliny affirme. Syrrup made of the floures of Borrage comforteth the heart, purgeth melancholy, and quieteth the phrenticke or lunaticke person."
John Gerard
'The Herball, or General Historie of Plantes' (1597)



(been drying/freezing herbs from the garden...it's great to see a borage renaissance...)