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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: I planted 24 annual vinca flowers, and the leaves have turned yellow. The flowering is very sparse, if any at all. Do you think they rotted from the rain in early June? Some have more normal color ...

Q: I planted several weigela shrubs in front of the house 18 years ago. My neighbors’ vinca has invaded that area. We have a bunch of pretty, large blue rocks and a lot of Mexican pebble rock that the ...

Q: We planted annual vincas for the first time this spring. About 20 percent of them have yellowed leaves, and the blooms are not so great either. The grower told us the soil lacked iron, but why ...

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.