vinca minor

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[OT from cortage renovations]

this cold snap can't be doing any favours for what's already in bloom, but I'm hoping for at least some of it to be hardy enough to pull through. 

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Bittersweet Cottage garden

the vinca minor seems to be doing all right. 

Vinca minor

yes, I know, it's an exotic, but I can't really bring myself to rip it out.  after all, that would take effort away from doing the same to English Ivy and bamboo. 

it blooms here in its eponymous colour and in white; in one of the parks nearby there's a patch of it that when it comes into bloom (which it hasn't yet) does so in a lighter lavender shade.