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Zoe P2Zoe P2 Posts: 848
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I found this growing in a shady but west facing part of my garden.  I suspect it's a bird or wind gift but could someone identify it, please!






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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Possibly a vinca (periwinkle)

    Billericay - Essex

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  • Artemis3Artemis3 Posts: 751
    I have a periwinkle that looks very similar to this, Zoe.  Perhaps the leaves are a little less rounded, though.  It has blue flowers, rather pretty too!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My thought was also that it’s one of the vincas. 

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  • Zoe P2Zoe P2 Posts: 848
    Pete, Artemis and Dove, thank you very much for your posts.  I looked up vinca and I now feel pretty sure it is, though, as Artemis says, the leaves are slightly less rounded. 

    I look forward to its blue flowers!



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      Martin Luther King

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It is a bit of a spreader, putting out long stems which take root where they touch the ground ...
    i chop them back hard after flowering ... they grow fresh foliage and often bloom again too. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Zoe P2Zoe P2 Posts: 848
    Thank you, Dove.  I will keep an eye on it and follow your advice.



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      Martin Luther King

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