Vinca is an Old World genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. The English name periwinkle is shared with the related genus Catharanthus.

Vinca (periwinkle) is a hardy ground cover for full sun to shade, blooming in spring and summer, ideal for borders, banks, and underplanting.

Vinca

Vinca minor 'Bowles's Variety' is a trailing, evergreen subshrub prized for forming a low, spreading mat by rooting along its stems. Its glossy, leathery leaves remain through winter and its solitary, five-lobed flowers appear from May to September. The plant commonly roots at nodes to create large clonal colonies and can occasionally scramble to about 40 centimetres high. It does not twine or climb.

Vinca minor 'Bowles's Variety' is a trailing evergreen periwinkle with glossy leaves and violet-purple flowers that bloom from May to September.

Vinca minor 'Bowles's Variety'

Periwinkle (Vinca minor 'Bowles's Variety') | Groundcover

Vinca minor 'Gertrude Jekyll' is a trailing subshrub in the Apocynaceae that spreads by rooting along its stems to form mats. It bears glossy, dark green leaves and produces solitary violet-purple flowers in the leaf axils. Flowering occurs from May to September.

Vinca minor 'Gertrude Jekyll' is a trailing periwinkle with glossy dark green leaves and violet-purple flowers from May to September.

Vinca minor 'Gertrude Jekyll'

Vinca minor 'Gertrude Jekyll' | Periwinkle

Vinca minor 'Hawaii' (lesser periwinkle 'Hawaii') is a matforming evergreen subshrub from the genus Vinca, known for its simple, opposite leaves and distinctive five-lobed salver-shaped flowers that appear in spring and summer. This cultivar thrives in a variety of light conditions, from full sun to full shade, and adapts well to different soil types including chalk, clay, loam, and sand, provided the soil is moist but well-drained. Hardy to UK zone H6, it is suitable for use as ground cover, on banks and slopes, or as underplanting beneath roses and shrubs in cottage and informal gardens. It prefers fertile, well-drained soil and can be propagated by division or semi-ripe cuttings.

Lesser periwinkle 'Hawaii' is an evergreen ground cover with distinctive spring-summer flowers, ideal for banks, borders, and shady spots, hardy to RHS H6.

Vinca minor 'Hawaii'

Vinca minor 'Silver Service' is a cultivar of the Vinca genus, which comprises evergreen subshrubs and herbaceous perennials with simple, opposite leaves and distinctive five-lobed flowers. This matforming shrub features evergreen foliage and thrives in a variety of light conditions, from full sun to full shade, and in diverse soil types including chalk, clay, loam, and sand. It prefers moist but well-drained soil and is hardy in the UK (H6). Suitable for use as ground cover or in cottage gardens, it is particularly valued for its low maintenance and seasonal interest in spring and summer.

Vinca minor 'Silver Service' is an evergreen matforming shrub with five-lobed flowers, ideal for ground cover and low-maintenance gardens from spring to summer.

Vinca minor 'Silver Service' (d/v)

Vinca minor 'Valentin' PBR is a matforming evergreen cultivar of the Vinca genus, which comprises subshrubs and herbaceous perennials with simple, opposite leaves and distinctive five-lobed salver-shaped flowers. This cultivar thrives in a variety of light conditions, from full sun to full shade, and adapts well to different soil types including chalk, clay, loam, and sand, provided the soil is moist but well-drained. Hardy to UK zone H6, it is suitable for use as ground cover in cottage and informal gardens, on banks and slopes, and as underplanting for roses and shrubs. It flowers in spring and summer and prefers fertile, well-drained soil for cultivation.

Vinca minor 'Valentin' PBR is an evergreen ground cover with five-lobed flowers, thriving in shade to full sun, ideal for banks, borders, and underplanting.

Vinca minor 'Valentin'PBR

Vinca minor Blue Sky ('Susill') is a cultivar of the Vinca genus, which comprises evergreen subshrubs and herbaceous perennials with simple, opposite leaves and distinctive five-lobed, salver-shaped flowers. This matforming shrub features evergreen foliage and thrives in a variety of light conditions, from full sun to full shade. It is hardy to UK zone H6 and prefers fertile, well-drained soil that can be chalk, clay, loam, or sand with a range of pH levels. Suitable for use as ground cover, in flower borders, or on banks and slopes, it flowers in spring and summer.

Vinca minor Blue Sky ('Susill') is an evergreen matforming shrub with blue flowers, ideal for ground cover and low-maintenance borders in spring and summer.