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Vinca major 'Green' {54 Pots - 2 1/2 in.}
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This Periwinkle is an evergreen trailing vine that has dark green (1-inch by 1 1/2- to 3-inch) leaves. In early spring, it is covered with blue-lilac (1-2 inch) flowers. 'Green' spreads quickly once established; it is fairly drought resistant, and a fast grower with regular watering.
It prefers shade and well-drained, fertile, loamy soil. In northern zones, it grows well in full sun, and in most southern zones, with ample water. 'Green' is tolerant of infrequent foot traffic. Vinca spreads by re-rooting where the runners touch the ground, so it will spread better if there is at most a thin layer of mulch.
If you are considering purchasing this plant in bare root form, please read about bare root plants so you know what to expect.
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It prefers shade and well-drained, fertile, loamy soil. In northern zones, it grows well in full sun, and in most southern zones, with ample water. 'Green' is tolerant of infrequent foot traffic. Vinca spreads by re-rooting where the runners touch the ground, so it will spread better if there is at most a thin layer of mulch.
If you are considering purchasing this plant in bare root form, please read about bare root plants so you know what to expect.
See all Vinca.
| General information about Vinca (Periwinkle, Myrtle): Vinca is a low-maintenance delight: it is great for window boxes, controlling soil erosion on shady slopes, and for covering the soil under trees and shrubs. Vinca (from Latin vincire "to bind, fetter") is a genus of five species in the family Apocynaceae; it is native to Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. Vinca’s common name, shared with its related genus Catharanthus, is Periwinkle. They are subshrubs (woody bases with herbaceous habits), and have slender trailing stems. These (3-7 feet long and no more than 2 feet high) stems frequently take root where they touch the ground, enabling the plant to spread widely. Its (1/5- to 3 1/2-inch long and 1/8- to 3 1/2-inch broad) leaves are opposite, simple, broad, and lanceolate to ovate shaped. As with Phlox, Vinca’s flowers are salverform (five united petals forming a tube that spreads at its open end); they are simple, 1-3 inches broad, and abundant through most of the year. Vinca fruits consist of clustered divergent follicles: they are dry and dehiscent along one rupture site to release seeds. Both species - the Small Periwinkle V. minor and the Large Periwinkle V. major - are very popular ornamental plants. Utilized most in gardens, they are grown for their delicate violet flowers, and their density as evergreen ground covers. As compared to V. minor, V. major is less cold hardy, and has broader (and hairier) leaves, larger flowers, and twice as many chromosomes. A variegated selection of V. major is commonly cultivated. |
- Cold hardiness zone: 6-11 (grown as an annual in Zones 3-5) (-10 degrees F) [ Contact your local extension to confirm hardiness if you are in a "fringe" zone (one of the ends of this range) ]
- AHS Heat Zone: 12-1
- Light:
Full sun 
Part sun 
Shade - Growth rate: Fast
- Mature height: 8-18"
- Spacing: 8-12"
- Tolerant of: Deer, Foot Traffic, Rabbits
- pH of Soil: 5.0 - 7.8, Ideal pH: 6.0 - 6.5
- Grows Under Trees: Pine - Yes, Walnut - Yes, Other - Yes
- Creeps: Yes
- Good for Erosion Control: Yes
- Evergreen: Yes
- Good for slopes: Yes
- Vines: Yes
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$106.38 for 1 pack of 54 plants ($1.97 per plant) 2-18 packs - $95.58 per pack ($1.77 per plant) Additional discounts
Temporarily out of stock. Expected 08/01/2013.
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