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Vinca minor 'Dart's Blue'
Dart's Blue common periwinkle

Size: 3" high x 18" wide

Flowering time: May-Jun
Hardiness: zone 4a
Native range: Europe . Western Asia

Light:Full shade
Full sun
Moisture:Dry
Moist
Drainage:No drainage
Good drainage

Catalog code: 01D-0007
Category: Perennials

Provides winter interestNaturalizingTolerates foot trafficControls erosion

Vinca minor 'Dart's Blue'

©2007 Christopher P. Lindsey

This sport of 'Bowles Variety' has blue flowers (slightly more pale than 'Bowles Variety') instead of the traditional lilac-lavender blooms. The flowers are still larger and the leaves just as clean and glossy as its parent, though!

Like most Vinca vines it will produce fewer blooms in deep shade, so if you can give it partial shade it will be happiest. It will fill a space faster if grown in organic, moist, well-drained soil, but it will also grow quite well in heavy clay as long as it gets adequate moisture.

Pot size: 4.5"sq x 3.5" (475 ml, or .5 quarts).