Re: Vinca Major
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Vinca Major
- From: R* D*
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 07:22:35 -0500
Marge is writing from zone 7, so I can't resist chiming in on the
variegated Vinca Major, as it lived over in my zone 5/6 garden this past
(very mild) winter, and just yesterday I noticed a lot of it planted on
the north side of another house in town that has apparently been surviving
for at least a couple of years. The flowers are larger and the white edges
on the leaves make for an attractive plant and a nice change from the
ubiquitous V. minor.
Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Marge Talt wrote:
> Yep, the variegated leaf varieties spread just as fast and well as
> the plain green ones. The variegated V. major is a lovely plant -
> most often sold as an "annual" for hanging baskets, but survives
> winter quite well in my cold part of z. 7. In really harsh winters,
> it will die back to the ground, but springs to life again and covers
> ground just as fast the next season.
>
