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 groundcover 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 'Ralph Shugert', 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.
