*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q: My annuals (petunias, verbena, and vinca) have gotten very leggy already, and their leaves are rather pale.

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What can I do to ... Over many decades, we have come to count on colorful, sturdy vinca (Catharanthus roseus) as the workhorse of our summer gardens. With its pretty pink, white and purple blooms clustered en masse on a ... Joellen Dimond plants Coleus, Pentas and Vinca.

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This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond demonstrates how to plant Coleus, ... Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: IN THE GARDEN: Overhead watering splashes soil on annual vinca, encouraging common disease Q: I have a large bed of annual vinca where more than half of the plants have died. Our helpful county extension service agents identified the problem as Phytophthora aerial stem blight. A vine has ... IN THE GARDEN: Overhead watering splashes soil on annual vinca, encouraging common disease AOL: How To Grow And Care For Variegated Vinca Vine—The Easiest Trailing Plant You'll Ever Own Variegated vinca goes by many names.

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Known as bigleaf periwinkle (Vinca major 'Variegata'), it's a variegated form of V. major, or greater periwinkle. These vinca vines have big leaves with a ...