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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Indian Ocean off the coast of southern Africa lies the big island of Madagascar, home to lots of exotic animals and one of my favorite plants: vinca (Catharanthus roseus), a popular annual ...

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 ...

Vinca major. Both this and its smaller "sister," Vinca minor can become aggressive, although it is technically not designated an invasive species. This is bigleaf periwinkle. Magnoliopsida > ...

: 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...