If you find your yard overtaken by these pretty purple flowers, you'll be glad to learn how to get rid of periwinkle. If you don't know what the periwinkle plant looks like, these pictures will be ...

How to Identify Periwinkle Flowers Periwinkle flowers (botanic name Vinca minor) grow as a ground cover in Zones 4 to 9. They typically reach heights of up to 6 inches, and widths of between 6 and 18 ...

Researchers at New York's University of Rochester Medical Center say a plant extract from purple periwinkles -- vinpocetine -- may someday be used to treat chronic inflammatory diseases including ...

One day last summer when I was exiting the Meadowbrook Parkway at M1E/Old Country Road, my daughter Justine pointed out a virtual field of periwinkle ... purple loosestrife competing with native ...

Periwinkle is a flowering perennial plant that blooms between spring and summer. Its tiny blossoms are a unique blend of blue, purple, and gray—the intensity of which are captured in a range of ...

The plant:There’s a spot at The ... evergreen vine with white, red-violet or purple-blue flowers. Pictured here is dwarf blue periwinkle, Vinca minor bowlesii, a common ground cover found ...

A reader wants to plant one in their garden. JERRY W. ASKS: Can you tell me the botanical name of your purple-leafed shrubs that have been in full bloom the past month? I would like to plant one ...

Question. A shrub that opens purple and white blooms is growing in several local landscapes. What is the name, and is it cold hardy? Answer. Some might call this a magical shrub as the flowers ...