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Permalink Reply by Jan Page on August 28, 2011 at 11:03am

I received this plant about 6 weeks ago and haven't done anything yet with it... Does anyone know anything about her?

Contributing GardenerPermalink Reply by Clare Oliva on August 28, 2011 at 11:08am

Hard to know for sure, but it looks like it could be a 'Silver King' Euonymus.

http://www.brighterblooms.com/product/silver-king-euonymus.html

If it is, it is a shrub that will eventually get 10 feet tall and 6 feet wide and prefers full sun to part shade..

Permalink Reply by Jan Page on August 28, 2011 at 11:12am

I apologize Clare, Actually I should have said that this is only 2inches tall at the most... I think it's a ground cover of some sort!

Thanks for your response...

Contributing GardenerPermalink Reply by Judith Kennedy Arthur on August 28, 2011 at 11:23am

It looks like pittosporum, but that is a shrub.  It grows well in the south.

Permalink Reply by Melissa Clark - Texas, 8b on August 28, 2011 at 12:45pm

I was going to say the same thing. Looks like Variegated Pittosporum, or Mock Orange, which is a shrub. I have one in my front yard that gets to about 6 foot tall if it isn't pruned regularly. But, if you're sure it is a groundcover, google variegated Vinca Major. Hard to tell.... If it is that type of Vinca groundcover, it should do really well in Minn.

Permalink Reply by Bob (Z9B Florida) on August 28, 2011 at 1:45pm

This is cool, you have this posted a couple of places and already have three or four choices as to what it could be!    I would have thought fresh cuttings of varigated pittosporum but the Arabis ferdinandi-coburgiirent is in the running too along with Clare's suggestion.  :)

 

Permalink Reply by Jan Page on August 29, 2011 at 4:19pm

If it's a Vinca I have 2 that are hardy but the  Varigated I have is  a new one called Illumination which is a gold veined with green and the other is simply a plain green.  This may be in the same family but another newer one.  Thanks Melissa for your information.