Plant Vinca minor as an easy-care groundcover

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• Plant Vinca minor as an easy-care groundcover
• Select the correct location for Vinca minor
• Calculate the correct number of plants for a (soon) closed plant carpet
• Advantages of the groundcover Vinca minor compared to the larger-leaved Vinca major
• Tips

Vinca minor is a nice, easy-care groundcover

Plant Vinca minor as an easy-care groundcover

The small-leaved periwinkle (Vinca minor) is considered botanically because of its woody shoots as a semi-shrub, the low stature height of only 10 to 15 cm makes it an ideal groundcover. Not least because it quickly spreads like a carpet at the desired location.

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Select the correct location for Vinca minor

The ideal location for Vinca minor meets the following criteria:

So that newly planted specimens can spread unhindered at the desired location, root weeds should first be removed from the soil as completely as possible. Possible locations in the garden are, for example:

When planting planters with periwinkle, however, you should keep in mind the reduced winter hardiness and increased pouring effort. From a use as border planting of raised beds for vegetable cultivation is rather discouraged, since Vinca minor as well as Vinca major is poisonous.

Calculate the correct number of plants for a (soon) closed plant carpet

Some gardeners want to play it safe when planting groundcover plants and plant them as densely as possible. You can definitely save this effort with the little periwinkle, because this is propagated very fast by foothills anyway. At a planting distance of about 25 to 30 cm between the plants there is a need for about 5 to 8 plants (depending on the strength and number of shoots of the young plants) per square meter of the area to be covered.

Advantages of the groundcover Vinca minor compared to the larger-leaved Vinca major

The subspecies of Vinca minor not only get smaller leaves than Vinca major, they also remain in the stature height significantly behind Vinca major. In addition, they are proliferating less in growth, so that weakly awake neighboring plants are not so easily overgrown by evergreens. In locations with very severe winters, Vinca minor can sometimes hold better than Vinca major at temperatures of up to - 25 degrees Celsius, since the latter is hardy only to about - 15 degrees Celsius.

Tips

The small evergreen is not only bluish-purple flowers, but also as a white-flowering plant Vinca minor alba. Mix different varieties of plants for a varied flowerbed carpet during flowering.