Out Of This World Trailing Periwinkle Seeds
Also called Creeping periwinkle vinca is a trailing ground cover vine that grows low to the ground with a good matting habit that is evergreen.
Trailing periwinkle seeds. Once Periwinkle seedlings emerge they need bright light. Vinca also known as periwinkle is one of the most dependable and long-blooming flowers for your garden. The most common flower color is periwinkle blue perhaps the reason for the common name periwinkle and they also come in white and wine purple.
Periwinkle is also used as a spreading shrub in USDA garden zones 4 to 8. The brilliant flowers come in a wide range of colors that will fit in any garden. Place the seeds where temperatures are around 80 F.
Additionally these beautiful flowers attract birds and butterflies bringing pollinators to your garden. Periwinkle is often also called creeping vinca or creeping myrtle. Trailing vinca are perfect in hanging baskets window boxes and as spillers in mixed containers.
This ability to spread. 6 - 9 inches. For detailed directions for indoor and outdoor planting please Click Here.
A great full sun option. Rather the plant spreads when the trailing vines root in the soil advises Purdue University. Lift the plastic or newspaper regularly to moisten by misting.
Vinca seeds will not germinate in any sort of light so cover trays or containers with a black plastic sheet or a newspaper. The periwinkle plant is exceptional as an erosion control specimen. Plant vinca seeds indoors three to four months before the last frost of the season.