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Freeport Gardening Guide: Vincas

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Vincas

Tattoo Raspberry Vinca Seeds:

Description: Like spreading ink, dark centers harmonize with vibrant-colored petals.  Like spreading tattoo ink, dark centers harmonize with vibrant-colored petals to make a head-turning combination unlike anything we’ve seen. Well suited for pairing with dark-purple flowers such as ‘Black & Blue’ salvia. For the best results, grow these beauties in pots, where their originality is sure to leave a mark.

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Soiree Kawaii Red Shades Vinca Plants:

Description: Tiny but tough, these bright-pink flowers love the heat.  In Japanese, the word “kawaii” means “cute”, and this vinca is cuteness itself. Offering season-long color, petite plants fling up a flurry of dainty, hot-pink flowers over attractive glossy green leaves. Tiny but tough plants love the heat and do well in the South. Drought tolerant.

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Trailing Burgundy Vinca Plants:

Description: Cascading vinca blooms all summer and asks for so little in return.  Let's offer a toast to this remarkable vinca, which displays its gorgeous wine-dark burgundy blooms even in the hottest dog days of summer—and asks so little in return! A low maintenance gardener’s dream that can take the heat and drought alike, and isn’t bothered by budworm and other pests.

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Peach Trailing Vinca Plants:

Description: Terrific performer all summer long with low water needs.  An excellent variety with many uses. Marvelous plants with vigorous trailing habit, dark-green shiny foliage that sparkles under the hot summer sun and is covered with cheerful light-peach blooms with pink eye. This trailing vinca is best used as cascading component in mixed patio planter or as ground cover in landscape bed.

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Tattoo Papaya Vinca Seeds:

Description: Like spreading ink, dark centers harmonize with vibrant-colored petals.  Like spreading tattoo ink, dark centers harmonize with vibrant-colored petals to make a head-turning combination unlike anything we’ve seen. Well suited for pairing with dark-purple flowers such as ‘Black & Blue’ salvia. For the best results, grow these beauties in pots, where their originality is sure to leave a mark.

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Arizona Mix Vinca Seeds & Plants:

Description: Widest color range.  Vinca Arizona Mix has the widest color range of any vinca mix. A rainbow of all vinca colors including reds, 1 1/2" blooms with contrasting "starry" eyes. Drought tolerant, loves heat. Space plants 8-10" apart.

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