The Virginian-Pilot: Gardening Q & A: Among the many kinds of vinca, are some perennial? Gardening Q & A: Among the many kinds of vinca, are some perennial? Question: I have a 4-foot x 20-foot garden planted with small boxwood shrubs and perennials.

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I'd like to remove the vinca groundcover. How can I do this without killing the other plants? Response from ... Q.

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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 ... House Digest on MSN: Ground cover companions that won't take over your perennial garden Q. Our Vinca minor is in its third year since planting.

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It looked great this spring … lively, lush, green, lots of small purple flowers. In fact, it never looked better. A month or so ago, we started ... Container gardening has become so much more chic than red geraniums, vinca vines trailing over the edge, and a green spike in the middle for height. In addition to the scads of new annual flowers ... Variegated vinca goes by many names.

It’s a variegated form of Vinca major, also known as greater periwinkle. It’s also known as bigleaf periwinkle (Vinca major ‘Variegata’), and the “variegated” part ...