I remember the day we were filming “Southern Gardening” as part of my duties with Mississippi State University. Friend and garden designer Lori Hitchcock presented an urn for the front porch of the ...

Variegated vinca goes by many names. 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 ...

Question: I have vinca plants that have become tall and lanky. Can I prune the plants back at this time? Answer: Give the plants a light trimming to stimulate fall growth and flowers. Common flowering ...

The plants produce 1-to-2-pound fruits with bright orange-, green- and cream-ridged vertical stripes that shift color as they mature. (Bred by Sakata America) Tomato Tonatico F1 (Mountain/Southwest, ...

Joellen Dimond plants Coleus, Pentas and Vinca. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond demonstrates how to plant Coleus, ...

Sometimes, the most powerful examples of plant resilience do not come from cultivated garden beds, but from the cracks in the pavement. Vinca, also known as Madagascar periwinkle, is one of those ...

Q. I’m trying to grow annual vinca in Zone 5. I got some this year and planted in early June. They are in a spot that faces west and gets sun all afternoon. Just after planting we had a lot of rain.

Q: I planted several weigela shrubs in front of the house 18 years ago. My neighbors’ vinca has invaded that area. We have a bunch of pretty, large blue rocks and a lot of Mexican pebble rock that the ...

Like most gardeners, I have favorite plants I’ve been growing for years and will continue to grow, like fragrant and tasty Big Boy tomatoes, wide Romano-type Italian flat beans, climbing zucchini and ...