Mažoji žiemė – Vinca minor

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Mažoji žiemė
Latin plant name	Vinca minor L.
English plant name	Periwinkle
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Clump, beds (mixborder) Flowerbed, parterres Pods Groups Rockery, retaining walls Cemetery Water bodies and coastal Wild plant parterre Combination with woody plants Solitaire
ASSORTMENT	main
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	wet soils average wet soils dry soils
Lighting	Heliophilous Half heliophobic Heliophobic
Spacing, cm	From 20 to 30
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	very short (foreground plants) – till 20 cm height short – 21-40 cm
Habitus	flower with non-expressive habitus, for background
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color	green variegated
Blossom color	violet blue, blue tints
Blooming time	spring - April Second Decade - June First Decade
Blooming period	1 month
General ornamentality	very decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	6
Group	logn-lived perennial (grown 7 and more years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: scrub division and cuttings. Propagated by scrub division during all vegetation period (till the end of September). Cuttings are taken in the first part of vegetation period (between May and July). Cutings are rooted in cold beds.