Today I spoke with a lady about her flowers. We spoke of her petunias. She asked me the name of a plant with dark purple flowers. I looked at it carefully and studied the leaves. I told her it was a vinca. I had not seen a vinca with dark purple flowers before.
It's lovely when your able to ID plants i'm uselss unless they're plants I've messed with for years and I used to throw the tags away off new plants...that has stopped this year.
The lady I spoke with declared that she had also bought pink vincas. These she had planted in her back yard.
Vincas, commonly known as periwinkles have single flowers in either purple, blue, pink or white. However there are double-flowered forms and variegated forms so the choice is wide. The pink with the purple centre could well be a hybrid.
Are you asking about Cataranthus roseus? If so, it's not very hardy, but is a perennial. So are the vines, Vinca minor and major.
