Annual vinca can be trailing or upright. Trailing vincas are a great option to spill out of a container or hanging basket. Upright varieties work well in mass plantings, especially in landscapes where ...

The simple vinca plant is being celebrated this year. The National Garden Bureau has designated 2002 as the “Year of the Vinca” because the plant provides so much garden color with so little care.

Question: I have a 4-foot x 20-foot garden planted with small boxwood shrubs and perennials. I'd like to remove the vinca groundcover. How can I do this without killing the other plants? Response from ...

Vinca, which is native to Madagascar, acts as an annual in most regions of North America. It blooms from the first warm days of late spring to the first frost in the all. Use vinca to edge a border of ...

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 ...

In my recent columns, I described the process of growing and transplanting the hybrid vinca, a colourful flowering plant, more commonly known as hybrid periwinkle and locally known as sadabahar. In ...

Q: We live in the Coachella Valley. Our landscape is planted with many vinca plants that give us a lot of color, but last summer some of them started to die. The nurseryman said it was because of a ...

Linguam Latinam non loquor - I don't speak Latin. Some botanical names don't trip lightly off my tongue. I'll sound out the words phonetically, but it's easy to stumble over pronunciations. The words ...

DEAR NEIL: The flowers on two of my vinca plants are turning mottled green (see photo). These are actually plants from last year that I have kept alive over the winter by moving them into the garage ...

Have you noticed some of the spectacular blue and white flowers this summer? Among the ones that have attracted my attention are the white Cora vinca flowers. They are a summer annual, so they will ...