They can suppress certain weeds, protect the soil from drying sun and wind, and bloom attractively. myHOMEBOOK reveals which ...

That means you need to kill grass in your flower beds, which is no easy feat, ... Lastly, there's the evergreen Vinca minor, or periwinkle. Suitable for zones 4 to 9, ...

GO WITH THE HEAT: For late summer color, continue to plant heat-tolerant bedding plants. Excellent choices for sunny areas include angelonia, coleus, torenia, periwinkle, melampodium, salvia ...

Dan Gill explains how to plan, plant and maintain flower beds ... ornamental pepper*, periwinkle*, pentas*, portulaca, purslane*, rudbeckia (Goldsturm is a long-lived ...

It is drought tolerant and flowers just about year-round. Madagascar periwinkle is a member of the plant family Apocynaceae and has historically been used to treat a wide variety of diseases. It ...