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Vinca minor 'Bowles'
Vinca
- Category: Perennial
- Hardiness Zone:4-9
- Height:4-6 Inches
- Spread:48 Inches
- Bloom Color: Blue/Purple
Reliable, creeping groundcover with larger and more numerous flowers than the species. Foliage is shiny and dark green. Lilac-blue pinwheel flowers appear in the spring.
Foliage Color
| • | Dark Green |
Soil Moisture
| • | Very Adaptable |
Season of Interest (Flowering)
| • | Spring |
Season of Interest (Foliage)
| • | Summer |
Bloom Time
| • | March - April |
Additional Information about Vinca minor 'Bowles'
Vinca is dereived from the Latin word vincio (to bind). Discovered in the 1920's by E.A. Bowles, in a French cemetery.