Vinca, Common Periwinkle, Creeping Myrtle, Variegated Vinca 'Illumination'

A well-behaved, unusual, and lovely bright spot in the shade. I have mine in my shady garden, where it creeps around through the ferns an...Read Mored heuchera and astilbe, without crowding them out and killing them, unlike the rampant, dark green species plant.
It doesn't root as easily, nor send out as many runners and roots. I'm making cuttings of it for next year's window boxes. Betcha there will still be room for the annuals.

Although usually sold as an annual "spiller" for pots, this cultivar of Vinca minor is actually a tough perennial, hardy into Zone 4, pos...Read Moresibly hardier. It makes a stunning ground cover for full shade, part shade, or mostly sun.

As of now, I have to give it a "neutral" rating. I planted it about a month ago and almost all 10 plants have started to grow. However,...Read More all of the new growth is a dark dark dark green rather than green/yellow. I'm just waiting patiently to see if it lightens up at all. Does flower nicely, however.

My plant and a friends both had a virus last year, it defoliated it but it came back. I think it could have been the fact that we had a wet spring.