In article , PatK
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junkyardcat wrote:
It is my understanding that Vinca grows very well in full shade, and it will
spread fairly quickly. It has nice greenery, with beautiful purplish blue
flowers on it in the Springtime I have some around several of my trees in
the back of my property

Angie


How is this different than the Vinca that you see for sale at the
nurseries that has the different colored flowers? That vinca grows up,
not out.

Pat

Vinca minor is a very close-to-the-ground very little groundcover. Vinca
major is a bigger versioin; it will have YOUNG upright branches but these
soon become long ground vines. Both V. minor & major can be invasive if
they like where they're at.

There are at least three variegated forms of Vinca major on the market
this season, & I these should make a lovely under-a-maple vine (vincas
dislike much sunlight), & the variegated forms would be slightly less
aggressive but still very easy plants, a very nice option to ivy. The
flowers on V. major are usually just various shades of light to dark blue.
Vinca minor has white, blue, & burgundy flowering varieties, & among the
variegated forms of that 'Illumination' is the brightest.

Ivy may seem like a tedious predictable choice but if you contact an ivy
specialist you will have choices of ivys that are fantastic choices with
distinctive traits; the dwarf English ivies with variegation and/or curly
leaves are not invasive like big boring regular ivy.

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