Annual Vinca Bedding Plant Update - Five Weeks Later - July 2025
About five weeks (or so) ago - in Mid-June - I planted 64 plugs of annual Vinca. Or, some call it Madigascar Periwinkle . These were in the newly (as of last Fall) expanded front bed that I call our 'front porch bed'. I've grown various flowering annuals up there. To varying degrees of success. Marigolds have worked . Dusty Millers went nuts (and came back partially a second season). One year, I did begonias and sedum. The sedum looked great, but wasn't hardy . Petunias failed . Sun Patients didn't work, either . I'm NOT EXACTLY sure how I ended up with pink (light purple?) annual vinca, but in one of those garden-center-induced hazes, I found myself sitting in the driveway with a couple of flats of these annuals. I planted them and hoped for the best. At first, they were stinkers. A number of them (maybe 10?) up-and-died. The rest just sort of were blah. But then...time wo...