Vinca Minor Atropurpurea

Rosy-red blooms are large and showy against evergreen leaves! A Vinca with a difference! Atropurpurea has the same carefree nature as other Vincas, but just look at the blooms! Large, showy, and beautifully colored a dusty rose, they make a nice change of pace for your ground cover plantings!The blooms arise in mid- to late spring, held up well for maximum showiness.

Atropurpurea is perfect for overplanting the spring-blooming bulb garden, for covering poor soil quickly, or for blanketing the dusty spaces beneath trees and shrubs where few other plants are happy. Atropurpurea spreads about 9 to 12 inches a year — not quite as quickly as the species, but eventually covering quite a lot of ground — and so beautifully!There is really nothing like these rosy-red blooms in the Vinca family. They look splendid with large-flowered blues such as La Grave, as well as the hard-to-find white. And they’re lovely enough to grace a container all by themselves, so large and eye-catching are they!Space plants about a foot apart in the garden. Best color is in partial shade. Zones 4-9