I like to know the name of a plant that grows near Tex/Mex. border. It was also sold locally as a standard. It has deep blue flowers and shinny green leaves. It is an annual in Illnois.
Here is a picture of the plant...thank you

Still working on the veg patch as DH keeps working on the new shed. Cant get the girls to wear shoes, no matter how frosty or harsh the ground, sigh.

You may be wondering why there is a shed inside the new shed. That houses our solar batteries etc, these will move into the new one as soon as we can get some roof and walls up. The shed will relocate over the water pumps beside the main tank. DH has cunningly placed the shed posts so that the batteries can remain covered...

to look after while Wayne is gone to visit his folks in northern B.C. The last time he went while we still had chickens I was in a panic to get them fed and get out (I'm allergic to something with chickens .. little feathers, mites .. who knows) that I locked myself in the pen with them. We live in the country, and I would have to yell my lungs out to be heard. I managed to wrench on the door enough to spring it open.
This time, we have no chickens, and Wayne doesn't leave until almost...

The completed top end, with paths mulched! Looks too good to be ours, hehe.

The lower end still looks very familiar, just a bit more weeding before I can get it to the same standard.

There are actually just as many plants in here as the upper beds, I have to find them now!

More work on the veggie bed, slowly the 2nd main bed is being revealed!
A couple of small shrubs at the nearer edge had to be removed as they were right in the line of the pavers. They were lime balm and salad burnet, have been divided and moved into some newly revealed empty spots. There were self seeded spares around anyway.