Unique Hanging Vinca Vine

Vinca Vine Vinca Vine Variegata is a wonderful variegated foliage plant that nicely spills over your window boxes hanging baskets or combination planters.

Hanging vinca vine. Plant the vinca at the same depth it was growing in its seedling pot or outside in the flower bed. Plant your vinca in a 6- to 8-inch diameter pot that has a minimum of one drainage hole. Its one of the many vines on display at the San Diego Zoo.

This unusual-looking vine is perfect for a butterfly garden. Use fast-growing evergreen vines to camouflage unsightly buildings or structures add privacy or create shade under arbors or other garden supports. Water the potting soil prior to planting until the soil is evenly moist and the excess water flows from the drainage hole in the pot.

North of zone 7 Vinca major is used as an annual in container gardens especially hanging pots. If you dont need them for that purpose plant them in well-drained. If you cut a sick stalk at this point youll notice the stem is dotted with black spots.

Bigleaf periwinkle leaves are semievergreen have a waxy cuticle and are heart-shaped to triangularThey are 15 to 25 inches 4 to 6 cm long. The most popular cultivar for this purpose is variegata valued for its variegated leaves. Though vinca plants are hardy and tolerant of a wide range of growing conditions it is important that their planting site is well drained.

Proven Accents Pink Chablis Dead Nettle Lamium maculatum. Part Sun to Sun. Create a greenhouse effect by putting a plastic bag over the plant and securing it with a rubber band around the rim of the pot.

Proven Accents variegata Variegated Vinca Vine Vinca major. Annual vinca is best grown in a sandy loam soil in a full sun location. Vinca minor the perennial flowering groundcover and vinca major the annual vine.