Didžioji žiemė – Vinca major

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Didžioji žiemė
Latin plant name	Vinca major L.
English plant name	Greater 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	supplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	wet soils average wet soils
Lighting	Heliophilous Half heliophobic
Spacing, cm	From 30 to 40
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	blue, blue tints
Blooming time	spring - April Second Decade - June First Decade
Blooming period	1 month
General ornamentality	decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	6
Group	logn-lived perennial (grown 7 and more years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods in Lithuania: scrub division and cuttings. The flower is propagated by cuttings during all vegetation period till the end of September. The flower is propagated by cuttings between May and July. Cutting should be planted in cold beds.