The species is commonly grown as a groundcover in temperate gardens for its evergreen foliage, spring and summer flowers, ease of culture, and dense habit that smothers most weeds. Vinca minor thrives best in 24 to 38 ☌ (75 to 100 ☏) daytime temperatures, while nighttime temperatures should be between 20 to 24 ☌ (68 to 75 ☏). A great evergreen plant that grows 6 inches tall and 6. The closely related species Vinca major is similar but larger in all parts, and also has relatively broader leaves with a hairy margin. Outstanding groundcover with green and gold leaves and white flowers in spring. (2.5 cm) across, five petals blunt at tip, arranged in spiral blooms in springtime. Flowers are blue, lavender or white, about 1 in. Leaves are opposite, dark green, glossy, oval to lance-shaped, thick-textured may be variegated. Consider underplanting Vinca with snowdrops or dwarf narcissi. Vinca minor is a vine-like erect or trailing groundcover mostly evergreen stems slender. They are great for underplanting and their trailing habit can be used to great effect in container planting.
Vinca minor will root at the leaf nodes so is very useful for tricky situations particularly sloping sites. The fruit is a pair of follicles 2.5 cm long, containing numerous seeds. Fantastic groundcover for either damp or dry shade. The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils and are produced mainly from early spring to mid summer but with a few flowers still produced into the autumn they are violet-purple (pale purple or white in some cultivated selections), 2-3 cm diameter, with a five-lobed corolla. The leaves are evergreen, opposite, 2-4.5 cm long and 1-2.5 cm broad, glossy dark green with a leathery texture and an entire margin. It is a trailing, viny subshrub, spreading along the ground and rooting along the stems to form large clonal colonies and occasionally scrambling up to 40 cm high but never twining or climbing. As the name suggests, the vinca vine is an evergreen vine with a slender trailing stem, that usually does not exceed a height of 8 to 30 inches. Vinca minor ground cover you are buying 200 hundred individual bareroot plants and we put 40 extra in for free,Vinca minor (lesser periwinkle) is a plant native to central and southern Europe, from Portugal and France north to the Netherlands and the Baltic States, and east to the Caucasus, and also in southwestern Asia in Turkey. The vinca major is commonly known as variegated vinca, while vinca minor is commonly called ‘periwinkle flower’ and ‘creeping myrtle’.
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