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 ...

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, ...

: 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 ...

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.

(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 ...