Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Vinca Loves the Graveyards

Remember The Graveyard Flower? Vinca's the name - the botany name. I call them the graveyard flowers for I remember them growing happily around graveyards.

Then just last week, during Eid-ul-Fitr when I visited an aunt's house, I saw them again, this time growing happily in pots around her garden. I felt like I was at a cemetary. Eerie ... Hih hiiii!!
But the creepiness quickly disappeared as I saw more and more of these beautiful blooms. Simple but attractive. And there are many other interesting colors on them, aside to the usual purple in the top picture.
Awesome! It's true when they say 'The further you walk, the more you'll see ...'
Owhh ... I need to walk further!


4 HIDUP BERANI UNTUK GAGAL:

Nell Jean said...

I've never seen vinca -- we call it Madagascar periwinkle -- in a cemetery, but it makes sense, since it tolerates drought very well. I grow them in flower beds beneath crape myrtles and with salvia leucantha.

azplantlady said...

How beautiful. We grow Vincas here in the desert in the summer as an annual.

Grace Peterson said...

Hi Blossom~~ Yep. I love these flowers. They aren't frost hardy so I have to buy new ones every year but they're worth it because they can take summer's heat and bloom their fool heads off. Beautiful photos...and nobody had to die to get them! :]

Bhavesh Chhatbar said...

I'll walk with you. I want to see more of these :)

Photos from Kas Plateau

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