Periwinkle is easily kept in check if you just trim it with a weed whacker 2 times a year. You trim it around the border where you want it contained. If it is growing around shrubs, you have to weed whack it around the srubs. My family has been doing this for decades. Once a year (in the Fall), we take a lawnmower over it about 3-4 inches off the ground. No problem. Easy-peasy. The reason why people think it;s invasive and out-of-hand is usually because they are lazy and/or lack common sense.
I have it in my backyard and it's doing very well, planned it 3 years ago, I love the flowers and the coverage, I hardly do anything for it, also it snows here where I live a lot and the temperature drops quite a bit but my plants is strong and healthy
I live in BC Canada with snow as high as 5 ft due to the fact l live in the moutains. They recover like new in spring. Sunny & hot means they need watering to stop them from yellowing. They like sun & shade. I use them on my hillside & island around trees. The ones l have are blue/purple color and flower looks like a bell shape. Walking on them is ok. They spring back. Very hardy.
This plant is one of my go-to groundcovers. That said, it can be invasive with weaker plants such as grasses or soft tissue perennials. I recommend using it with larger shrubs that don't worry about competition such as Spiraea, Yypereicum moseranum, or Vibrunum. I've seen it slowly smother Azaleas where it wasn't held back and allowed to grow in and around it's base. It can handle sun or shade which is very nice, but it prefers part shade, at least in hot areas in Summer. Note, The vinca family is diverse and this one is only similar to the Vinca major, but not the annual varieties.
I have some red periwinkles, currently being used as a hanging plant in the awning from my back porch to my carport. They have thrived in the shade, but with the weather cooling off, they have slowed down a bit. My question is, how do I care for them during fall/winter months? Should I place them in the ground, hang them inside?? I hate to say it, but I am so clueless with this. Advice needed!
I have this in Maryland where we get months of snow cover and my plants are fine! Great ground cover for shade and sun areas. Keep watered and mulch at first planting, takes a couple of years to really fill in.
catbobandy is right. At least here in Oregon and probably the entire Pacific Northwest, this plant should be avoided. It can be very invasive and very hard to kill. I would suggest keeping it in containers or use several better alternatives (kinnickinnick, creeping barberry, prostrate ceanothus, pachysandra, pig-a back plant). I wish I could show vinca enthusiasts the 4 acre natural forest area that is infested with vinca minor. Because someone dumped some along the road. Forget weaker plants, It has formed a monoculture out-competing natives.
How long til it really takes over? I'm wanting to choke out the weeds that come from the woods. Even want to do a large hillside. I'm getting 300 dormant plants.
It is so invasive that you actually need one single plant and in 2 years it will be covering literally everything. In our yard between buldings it covered everything and now it s sticking out of cracks in concrete nearby.
their are two types, one likes hot/sunny conditions that flowers all summer the other one is more for the cooler and needs cover and flowers in the spring, im doing assigment on vinca family, feel free to ask questions, i'll help as much as i can
Periwinkle is easily kept in check if you just trim it with a weed whacker 2 times a year. You trim it around the border where you want it contained. My family has been doing this for decades. Once a year (in the Fall), we take a lawnmower over it about 3-4 inches off the ground. No problem. Easy-peasy. The reason why people think it's invasive and out-of-hand is usually because they are lazy and/or lack common sense.
Thank you for the video. Your comment on using gallon size vs flat was especially helpful.
Periwinkle is easily kept in check if you just trim it with a weed whacker 2 times a year. You trim it around the border where you want it contained. If it is growing around shrubs, you have to weed whack it around the srubs. My family has been doing this for decades. Once a year (in the Fall), we take a lawnmower over it about 3-4 inches off the ground. No problem. Easy-peasy. The reason why people think it;s invasive and out-of-hand is usually because they are lazy and/or lack common sense.
Thanks for the good information will trim twice a year.
I have this in an outdoor planter. Its grown so fast and I love it. I'm going to put some in hanging baskets this yr
Thank you for taking the time to do this. Very good video.
I have it in my backyard and it's doing very well, planned it 3 years ago, I love the flowers and the coverage, I hardly do anything for it, also it snows here where I live a lot and the temperature drops quite a bit but my plants is strong and healthy
I live in BC Canada with snow as high as 5 ft due to the fact l live in the moutains. They recover like new in spring.
Sunny & hot means they need watering to stop them from yellowing. They like sun & shade.
I use them on my hillside & island around trees. The ones l have are blue/purple color and flower looks like a bell shape.
Walking on them is ok. They spring back. Very hardy.
This plant is one of my go-to groundcovers. That said, it can be invasive with weaker plants such as grasses or soft tissue perennials. I recommend using it with larger shrubs that don't worry about competition such as Spiraea, Yypereicum moseranum, or Vibrunum. I've seen it slowly smother Azaleas where it wasn't held back and allowed to grow in and around it's base. It can handle sun or shade which is very nice, but it prefers part shade, at least in hot areas in Summer. Note, The vinca family is diverse and this one is only similar to the Vinca major, but not the annual varieties.
I have some red periwinkles, currently being used as a hanging plant in the awning from my back porch to my carport. They have thrived in the shade, but with the weather cooling off, they have slowed down a bit. My question is, how do I care for them during fall/winter months? Should I place them in the ground, hang them inside?? I hate to say it, but I am so clueless with this. Advice needed!
This grows all over my backyard in zone 6 with cold, snowy winters. My yard is part of a forest which it seems to like.
Ive a 1 gallon plant that I’d like to transplant to a larger area. Will dividing it up work?
Vinca minor is badass! I'ts the Honeybadger of groundcover! Good for the gardener that does not have a green thumb.
😆😆 funny
I have this in my front yard in a large rectangular area. I’m wanting to move it to my backyard for ground cover. How could I do this? Thank you
beautiful & resilient plant. Thanks for that
I have this in Maryland where we get months of snow cover and my plants are fine! Great ground cover for shade and sun areas. Keep watered and mulch at first planting, takes a couple of years to really fill in.
catbobandy is right. At least here in Oregon and probably the entire Pacific Northwest, this plant should be avoided. It can be very invasive and very hard to kill. I would suggest keeping it in containers or use several better alternatives (kinnickinnick, creeping barberry, prostrate ceanothus, pachysandra, pig-a back plant). I wish I could show vinca enthusiasts the 4 acre natural forest area that is infested with vinca minor. Because someone dumped some along the road. Forget weaker plants, It has formed a monoculture out-competing natives.
How long til it really takes over? I'm wanting to choke out the weeds that come from the woods. Even want to do a large hillside.
I'm getting 300 dormant plants.
It is so invasive that you actually need one single plant and in 2 years it will be covering literally everything. In our yard between buldings it covered everything and now it s sticking out of cracks in concrete nearby.
@@majawow do you suggest minor or major I hear major does better
@@dcsr2457 minor acts this way, as for major i don t have experience with that plant.
Keeps foliage year round in icy CHicago!
I have them next to my home, and for three years, they have flowered poorly, and refused to spread. Strange.
Nice
Works great in metro Detroit.
their are two types, one likes hot/sunny conditions that flowers all summer the other one is more for the cooler and needs cover and flowers in the spring, im doing assigment on vinca family, feel free to ask questions, i'll help as much as i can
What's the differences between the two types? And it seems mine flower early spring & beginning of fall.
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Dianthus
What is dianthus…
Thats an invasive species. you shouldnt be planting it anywhere.
catBOBANDY we should stop having babies then :D
Anywhere?
Periwinkle is easily kept in check if you just trim it with a weed whacker 2 times a year. You trim it around the border where you want it contained. My family has been doing this for decades. Once a year (in the Fall), we take a lawnmower over it about 3-4 inches off the ground. No problem. Easy-peasy. The reason why people think it's invasive and out-of-hand is usually because they are lazy and/or lack common sense.