Each year, the National Garden Bureau selects a flower to promote, and this year the annual garden flower known as vinca is the star of the show! Vinca is a popular annual bedding plant in the Midwest ...

Over many decades, we have come to count on colorful, sturdy vinca (Catharanthus roseus) as the workhorse of our summer gardens. With its pretty pink, white and purple blooms clustered en masse on a ...

Variegated vinca goes by many names. It’s a variegated form of Vinca major, also known as greater periwinkle. It’s also known as bigleaf periwinkle (Vinca major ‘Variegata’), and the “variegated” part ...

Joellen Dimond plants Coleus, Pentas and Vinca. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond demonstrates how to plant Coleus, ...

Growing vinca from seed is one of those activities that appeal to curious and/or enthusiastic gardeners. It is not a difficult task; it simply takes more time and effort than buying plants at the ...

: I am hoping you can shed some light on our problem with vinca. We are growing it in containers. This is the first year we have had problems with it. A: Vinca minor is a good evergreen groundcover in ...

I remember the day we were filming “Southern Gardening” as part of my duties with Mississippi State University. Friend and garden designer Lori Hitchcock presented an urn for the front porch of the ...

(Bred by Garden Genetics and Seeds by Design) Cauliflower Murasaki Fioretto 70 F1 (National Winner) Murasaki translates to “purple” in Japanese. So, yes, this long-stemmed cauliflower has bright ...

Q. I just planted a flat of vincas in my condo flower bed as I do every year. They really flourish and are good until late October when I pull them up. A few of the white variety seem to come back in ...

They just don’t make them like they used to. New Vinca varieties are lacking one key characteristic from their ancestors. Although, the new varieties still have the hardiness and low water ...

Q. I’m trying to grow annual vinca in Zone 5. I got some this year and planted in early June. They are in a spot that faces west and gets sun all afternoon. Just after planting we had a lot of rain.