Dwarf blue periwinkle (also known as vinca minor) from Garden Territory at Garden Territory inside the Farm at South Mountain.

Vinca minor may be an attractive ground cover, but it can quickly take over your entire backyard. Here are tips for ...

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Native to temperate regions across Europe, periwinkle is an impressive ground cover plant that will thrive wherever it is planted. Growing best from US hardiness zone 3 to zone 9, periwinkle will ...

Nor is this the Vinca known as Madagascar periwinkle used as annual bedding plants in the summer. Vinca minor is a prostrate (trailing), evergreen vine with white, red-violet, or purple-blue flowers.

The common, sun-loving vinca has the genus name catharanthus. Vinca major and vinca minor are shade-loving ground covers, and vinca vine is a trailer with variegated leaves often used in window ...

Vinca minor (lesser periwinkle or dwarf periwinkle) with blue-violet flowers and green leaves under trees or in a flowerbed.

Vinca is called myrtle because the shiny, dark green pointed leaves somewhat resemble those of true myrtle, a strongly aromatic broadleaved evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean and Asia Minor.

Vinpocetine, first discovered in the 1960s, is produced in the lab by chemically altering vincamine, a compound from the Vinca minor periwinkle plant.

Periwinkle substitutes include ivory star jasmine, beach strawberry (Fragaria californica or Fragaria chiloensis) and wall germander. Dwarf periwinkle (Vinca minor) is less invasive, but it’s ...

The Vinca minor, also known as common periwinkle, is best known for being an easy ground cover with periwinkle blue flowers in spring.