76 Titan Lavender Blue Halo Vinca Planted in Front Porch Bed - Bedding Annuals for Color - June 2026

Last year, I planted a new (to me) annual bedding plant in our front porch beds:  Madagascar Vinca.  64 plugs.  They worked really well and filled in the front of the border with a carpet of pink color by the end of July.  I mentioned in that post that ten-or-so died immediately, so the total was closer to 54 plants that filled-in the bed.  They were pink - which was a result of just *having* to choose something.  

This year, I found flats of purple Vinca at Wannemakers.  Titan Lavender Blue Halo.  Here, below, is a photo of the plant tag and one of the flats:

Here's what Ball Seed says about Titan Lavender Blue Halo Vinca:

Big, bold and better branching vincas! Titan is up to 2 weeks faster to flower than open-pollinated vincas, with superior branching and big flowers in all the top-selling colours. The most uniform F1 vinca series on the market shows off flowers that are up to 50% larger than O.P. types in cooler temperatures.

Faster to flower.  Better branching, big flowers.  Say less, Titan Vinca.  

Earlier this Spring - in April - I undertook a front yard bed extension project.  Something that I SHOULD have done in the Fall.  But, I didn't.  I did it in Spring - in the end of March.  I used my 'lazy method' of extending the beds with cardboard (to smother turf), piled on with municipal biosolids, leaf litter and composted manure.  Along the front porch bed, I extended the bed OUTWARD, shaped it with a better curve and connected it (in a very small way) to the Saratoga Ginkgo bed.  

I ended up planting 76 vinca in the bed from the front stoop to the edge of the bed.  See below for a north-to-south view from our front walk:

And, here below are some wider views of the 76 vinca annuals.  Mostly posting so I can do a later-season comparison for coverage and grow-in:

Here, below, is a look at that little strip of 'extension' that (now) connects the front porch bed to the Saratoga Ginkgo bed:

#10 on my annual to-do list is to "Keeping going with annuals as bedding plants", so adding these 76, in addition to the White Polka Dot plants in the backyard, the Stardust Coleus and the red Coleus in the Island bed get me to my largest annual planting total ever, I think.  

And, I'm not done with these Vinca.