This vinca has been two decades in the making. The disease-fighting technology developed for it is so revolutionary that it's actually being patented. Until now, vinca has been prey to "sudden death" in humid, rainy, or very hot climates. Now the cure has been discovered, and Cora is ready to thrive in the most damp and moist conditions without turning a petal. It's a whole new day for this lovely, long-blooming plant.
Cora is a very well-branched, heavy-blooming plant about 14 to 16 inches high and 25 inches wide. The blooms are pure white, and they appear right down to the ground. Flowering heavily all summer (and sometimes in late spring and early fall as well), this plant is eye-catching and very, very easy to grow.
Cora was the only vinca to survive until frost in punishing garden trials in Dallas. After all the freak hot spells and cold snaps of autumn, it alone remained in the garden, briskly growing. This is a plant that can take climate stress of all types in stride.
In addition to white, there are 4 other single colors and a mix of all 5: apricot, burgundy, lavender, white and violet. Try them all, mix and match your color combinations, or select your favorites. Each color has the same height, width, and bloom time as the others, so they do very well in large mixed plantings.
Give Cora full sun and good soil drainage. It is useful as a bedding plant, border standout, ground cover, and even in containers indoors and out.
Periwinkle, or Vinca is often used as a ground cover, in beds and borders, or as a container plant. Plants, 4-18 inches tall, can be bushy and well-branched to spreadingmounds. Rounded, 11/2- inch to 2- inch blooms of white, pink, crimson, and lavender with overlapping petals are borne from summer till frost. The glossy, dark green foliage is 1-2 inches long, and oblong on this upright and spreading plant
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
This vinca has been two decades in the making. The disease-fighting technology developed for it is so revolutionary that it's actually being patented. Until now, vinca has been prey to "sudden death" in humid, rainy, or very hot climates. Now the cure has been discovered, and Cora is ready to thrive in the most damp and moist conditions without turning a petal. It's a whole new day for this lovely, long-blooming plant.
Cora is a very well-branched, heavy-blooming plant about 14 to 16 inches high and 25 inches wide. The blooms are pure white, and they appear right down to the ground. Flowering heavily all summer (and sometimes in late spring and early fall as well), this plant is eye-catching and very, very easy to grow.
Cora was the only vinca to survive until frost in punishing garden trials in Dallas. After all the freak hot spells and cold snaps of autumn, it alone remained in the garden, briskly growing. This is a plant that can take climate stress of all types in stride.
In addition to white, there are 4 other single colors and a mix of all 5: apricot, burgundy, lavender, white and violet. Try them all, mix and match your color combinations, or select your favorites. Each color has the same height, width, and bloom time as the others, so they do very well in large mixed plantings.
Give Cora full sun and good soil drainage. It is useful as a bedding plant, border standout, ground cover, and even in containers indoors and out.
Periwinkle, or Vinca is often used as a ground cover, in beds and borders, or as a container plant. Plants, 4-18 inches tall, can be bushy and well-branched to spreadingmounds. Rounded, 11/2- inch to 2- inch blooms of white, pink, crimson, and lavender with overlapping petals are borne from summer till frost. The glossy, dark green foliage is 1-2 inches long, and oblong on this upright and spreading plant
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.