Now that our gardens and landscapes are heating up, it is the perfect time to plant annual flowering vinca. This beauty provides hot summer color you just can’t beat. Annual flowering vinca is a solid ...

Understanding the Context

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: IN THE GARDEN: Overhead watering splashes soil on annual vinca, encouraging common disease Q: I have a large bed of annual vinca where more than half of the plants have died. Our helpful county extension service agents identified the problem as Phytophthora aerial stem blight. A vine has ... IN THE GARDEN: Overhead watering splashes soil on annual vinca, encouraging common disease I have always been a big fan of the annual, Catharanthus roseus, better known as vinca.

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They are blooming machines, flowering all summer despite our heat and humidity. They are also drought tolerant ... Q. I’m trying to grow annual vinca in Zone 5. I got some this year and planted in early June.

Final Thoughts

They are in a spot that faces west and gets sun all afternoon. Just after planting we had a lot of rain. The Virginian-Pilot: Gardening Q & A: Among the many kinds of vinca, are some perennial? 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 ...