Plants for the window box – Umbrella Plant, Vinca

Umbrella Plant (Cyperus alternifolius)

Green umbrella-like growth makes this plant most attractive. For your first year’s sales, obtain small plants and sell them retail. If you have leftovers you may want to grow one or two for specimen greenhouse or house plants. Transplant them to a size larger pot.

You can propagate these by sowing seeds in a propagating case, giving them plenty of moisture and bottom (cable) heat of about 70 degrees, or through root divisions of the older plants, taken in March, and handled just like the seeds.

Vinca

Vinca major is perhaps the most commonly used vine in the window box, and it is tender. (Vinca minor or periwinkle is the popular, hardy, evergreen groundcover.) Vinca majors small variegated leaves on slender stems make it a pretty plant to trail over the edges of a box.

Since it usually takes a full year to grow salable plants from cuttings, it is better to purchase rooted cuttings, about a month before the beginning of spring sales. Pot them up in 2-inch pots, grow them in the warm house, and keep the soil thoroughly moist at all times.

There are a few improved forms with somewhat deeper variegations than the species major. These are listed as “highly colored,” “richly variegated,” or “improved” varieties.

Leaf loss may be due to a too high temperature and lack of water.

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