(Madagascar Periwinkle)

Vinca in the Sunstorm® Series are large-flowered, compact and tolerant of both hot and cool growing conditions. These Syngenta introductions are very high-performing and come in lots of bright, fun colors.

Vinca, or Madagascar periwinkle, is a bushy tender perennial shrub that delights with many colorful, radial flowers that appear all season long. As its common name suggests, it’s native to Madagascar, a tropical island off the southeastern coast of Africa. Not surprisingly, this popular...

(Madagascar Periwinkle, Titan Periwinkle, Titan Vinca, Vinca)

Members of the Titan series have neat mounded habits, are large and heavy-flowering, and vigorous. The series is offered by Ball Horticultural Company and comes in a wide array of colors.

Vinca, or Madagascar periwinkle, is a tropical evergreen shrub that is grown as a tender annual or perennial in temperate climates. It is a highly heat and drought tolerant ornamental that blooms continuously and bears large, radial five-petaled blooms of red, pink, lilac, burgundy, magenta, purple or white...

(Madagascar Periwinkle, Tutti Frutti Periwinkle, Tutti Frutti Vinca, Vinca)

Tutti Frutti Series vinca bear large, radial, five-petaled flowers in tropical shades of pink, peach, apricot, white and coral, most with a red or white blotch in the center called an eye. Vinca, or Madagascar periwinkle, is a bushy tender perennial shrub that delights with many colorful, radial flowers that appear all season long. As its common name suggests, it’s native to Madagascar, a tropical island off the southeastern coast of Africa. Not surprisingly, this popular bedding plant is both heat...

(Madagascar Periwinkle, Victory Periwinkle, Victory Vinca, Vinca)

The colorful vinca in the Victory Series are compact, heavy flowering and have good branching habits. The plants also exhibit excellent heat and disease resistance.

Vinca, or Madagascar periwinkle, is a bushy tender perennial shrub that delights with many colorful, radial flowers that appear all season long. As its common name suggests, it’s native to Madagascar, a tropical island off the southeastern coast of Africa. Not surprisingly, this popular bedding plant is both heat and drought tolerant,...

(Madagascar Periwinkle, Viper Madagascar Periwinkle)

The relatively tall, large-flowered vinca in the Viper Series were developed by British breeders at FloraNova. They are early flowering and have good tolerance to the intense summer heat and dry soil as well as cooler, moister growing conditions.

Vinca, or Madagascar periwinkle, is a bushy tender perennial shrub that delights with many colorful, radial flowers that appear all season long. As its common name suggests, it’s native to Madagascar, a tropical island off the southeastern coast of...

(Cattleya, Corsage Orchid)

Admired for its fragrance and exotic looks, Cattleya bicolor is a handsome corsage orchid with yellowy brown-green and pink flowers. An epiphytic tender perennial orchid from Brazil, it will form a lush, dense cluster upon a tree branch, wood/wire basket or weighted pot in frost-free gardens.

The stiff, leathery green leaves arise from cylindrical pseudobulbs, each with one to two leaves. In the warmth of summer and autumn, the plant will form small clusters of fragrant flowers on stiff...

(Cattleya, Corsage Orchid, Gaskell's Corsage Orchid)

Perhaps the source of the color "orchid", Cattleya gaskelliana is admired for its large, fragrant, ruffled orchid-colored flowers that appear in late spring. An epiphytic (growing on another plant) or lithophytic (growing on rocks) tender perennial orchid from eastern Venezuela's montane forests, Gaskell's corsage orchid forms a lush, sprawling cluster that can be cultivated on a tree branch, rock crevice, wood/wire basket or pot in frost-free garden spaces. Extensive...

(Cattleya, Corsage Orchid, White Gaskell's Corsage Orchid)

Majestic in size, texture and beauty, the white form alba of Cattleya gaskelliana is admired for its large, fragrant, ruffled white late springtime flowers. An epiphyte (growing on another plant) or lithophyte (growing on rocks), this tender perennial orchid from eastern Venezuela's montane forests, white Gaskell's corsage orchid will form a lush, sprawling cluster on a tree branch, rock, wood basket or clay pot in frost-free gardens. This orchid that flowers so prolifically unfortunately...

(Corsage Orchid, Crimson Lip Cattleya, Ruby-lipped Cattleya)

"Ruby" spotted lips appear on the fall and winter-occurring lavender-fuchsia blossoms of the ornate crimson-lipped cattleya. An epiphytic (growing on another plant), frost-tender perennial orchid from Brazil and Venezuela's highland forests, it will form a loose, airy cluster on a tree branch, wood basket or heavy pot in frost-free gardens.

Only one oblong, stiff, leathery green leaf grows from each club-like pseudobulb that is covered in green sheaths. A new pseudobulb appears in late spring...

(Cattleya, Corsage Orchid, Lüddemann's Corsage Orchid)

Springtime heralds showy, large fuchsia-lavender flowers of Cattleya lueddemanniana, a beautifully-shaped orchid of the northern coast and mountain slopes of Venezuela. An epiphytic (growing on another plant) tender perennial, Lüddenmann's corsage orchid will form a lush, dense cluster upon a tree branch, wood/wire basket or weighted pot in frost-free gardens. There are white-flowering and more blue-violet colored forms of this species, and those that grow in the montane regions are smaller...