Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 275) Vinca minor “Ralph Shurgert”

After we added the woodland garden and pond over twenty years ago, I gave Leon this plant as an anniversary gift.  It has stayed politely in place and blooms beautifully in early spring.  The leaves are handsomely variegated, splashed just enough with white to sparkle, but without looking unnatural.

We do nothing to care for this plant.  We water the entire garden a few times in the driest parts of summer and that’s it—but it seems to thrive.

My future plans with this plant are to grab some rooted divisions from around the outside of the plant and pot them up for adding to other parts of the garden or to give away.