If last summer's heat and drought wilted your pansies, consider planting Madagascar periwinkle this year. For sunny sites with dry soil, few flowers can beat this heat-loving beauty. In tropical or ...

Here’s a tropical home-garden ornamental that merits a gold medal for beauty and environmental friendliness. Known as rose or Madagascar periwinkles ...

Recently, during an early evening walk, I passed a patch of weeds in bloom. The plants were growing in a harsh area — sandy, blazing sun and very dry — yet the plants were in full bloom. What is this ...

In 1939, Winston Churchill was giving a speech when he said: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.” If ...

In 1952, Canadian research scientist Robert Noble received an envelope in the mail. Inside were 25 leaves of a plant called the Madagascar periwinkle. Noble’s brother, a physician, sent the packet ...

If a Madagascar periwinkle shows up unannounced in your landscape, it’s a weed. Unfortunately, some folks consider this ever-blooming perennial (Catharanthus roseus) undesirable even when its red, ...