Overview

Transform your garden with a generous bundle of Vinca Minor live plants, also widely known as Periwinkle or Creeping Myrtle. These robust, bare-root plants are an ideal choice for anyone seeking a durable and beautiful evergreen ground cover solution. Each bundle contains 100+ healthy, carefully harvested plants, ensuring you have ample stock to establish a lush, weed-suppressing carpet in your landscape. Vinca Minor is celebrated for its glossy green foliage and charming violet-blue flowers that emerge in spring, adding a vibrant touch to any setting. Whether you’re looking to cover slopes, fill in shady areas under trees, or create a dense mat in your garden beds, these versatile plants are a fantastic choice, thriving in a variety of conditions.

Our Vinca Minor live plants are sourced from vigorous stock, ensuring they are well-rooted and pest-free, ready for successful establishment in your garden. They arrive as bare roots, a cost-effective and efficient way to plant a large area, and are shipped dormant or semi-dormant for optimal transplanting success. This perennial favorite is not only aesthetically pleasing but also incredibly functional, offering excellent erosion control and significantly reducing weed growth, making it a favorite among homeowners and landscapers alike.

Key Benefits

Investing in Vinca Minor live plants brings a multitude of advantages to your garden and landscape. These plants are renowned for their hardiness and adaptability, offering long-lasting beauty with minimal effort.

• Exceptional Ground Cover: Vinca Minor forms a dense, spreading mat that effectively suppresses weeds and prevents soil erosion, making it perfect for challenging areas like slopes or under large trees.
• Low Maintenance: Once established, these plants require very little care, making them ideal for busy gardeners or those looking for an easy-to-manage landscape.
• Evergreen Foliage: Enjoy lush, glossy green leaves year-round, providing continuous color and texture even in winter months. This evergreen quality ensures your garden always looks vibrant.
• Beautiful Blooms: In spring, the plants burst with delicate violet-blue flowers, adding a charming splash of color that contrasts beautifully with the dark green foliage.
• Versatile Growing Conditions: Periwinkle ground cover thrives in both sun and shade, offering flexibility in planting locations across your garden.
• Hardy and Resilient: These plants are incredibly tough, tolerating a range of soil types and conditions, and are hardy in USDA Zones 4-9.
• Cost-Effective Landscaping: Planting creeping myrtle bare roots is an economical way to cover large areas, providing significant visual impact without breaking the bank.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your Vinca Minor live plants is straightforward, making them an excellent choice for both novice and experienced gardeners. These resilient plants are notably low-maintenance once established, but a good start ensures their long-term success. For optimal results, plant your bare-root Vinca Minor in spring or fall. Upon arrival, soak the bare roots in water for 1-2 hours to rehydrate them before planting. Dig holes approximately 4-6 inches deep, placing the roots in and covering with soil. Space plants 8-12 inches apart to allow for dense coverage as they spread.

Sunlight requirements: Vinca Minor is highly adaptable, thriving in both full sun and partial to full shade. While it can tolerate full sun, it often prefers some afternoon shade in hotter climates to prevent leaf scorch. Watering schedule: After planting, water thoroughly and keep the soil consistently moist (but not waterlogged) for the first few weeks to help the plants establish. Once established, Vinca Minor is quite drought-tolerant, requiring minimal watering, especially in cooler climates. Soil type: These plants prefer well-drained soil, but they are adaptable to a wide range of soil types, including clay, loam, and sand. Good drainage is key to preventing root rot. Temperature range and USDA hardiness zone: Vinca Minor is hardy in USDA Zones 4-9, tolerating a broad spectrum of temperatures. It is a robust plant that can withstand cold winters and warm summers. Fertilization: Generally, fertilization is not essential for evergreen ground cover like Vinca Minor, especially in fertile soils. If your soil is poor, a light application of a balanced, slow-release fertilizer in early spring can be beneficial. Common problems: Overwatering is the most common issue, leading to root rot. Ensure proper drainage. Pests are rarely a problem for Vinca Minor live plants. Remember, Vinca Minor is toxic to pets, so consider this if you have animals that might chew on plants.

Size & Details

This offering includes 100+ bare-root Vinca Minor live plants, providing a substantial quantity for covering significant garden areas. Each plant is carefully harvested and inspected to ensure quality and vigor, arriving ready for planting. Vinca Minor typically grows to a height of 4-6 inches, creating a low, dense carpet. Its spreading habit means that individual plants will expand to cover an area of 1-2 feet, making them excellent for rapid establishment of ground cover. When planting, space these creeping myrtle bare roots 8-12 inches apart to achieve a full, continuous mat over time.

These plants are shipped in their dormant or semi-dormant state, which is the ideal condition for successful transplanting and minimizes stress on the plant. With proper care, you can expect these Vinca Minor plants to establish quickly, providing lush foliage and charming violet-blue flowers in their first growing season. They offer a vigorous growth rate, quickly filling in spaces and providing effective weed suppression and erosion control. The mature spread and consistent evergreen foliage make this a reliable choice for lasting landscape beauty.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big do these Vinca Minor live plants get? A: Vinca Minor live plants typically grow to a height of 4-6 inches, forming a low, dense mat. Each plant has a spreading habit and can cover an area of 1-2 feet horizontally once established.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: Vinca Minor is primarily an outdoor plant, commonly used as an evergreen ground cover in gardens, under trees, and on slopes. It is not generally grown as an indoor houseplant.
• Q: How much sunlight does Vinca Minor need? A: This versatile plant thrives in both full sun and partial to full shade. In hotter climates, some afternoon shade is beneficial to protect the foliage.
• Q: Is this Vinca Minor plant easy to care for? A: Yes, Vinca Minor is considered a very low-maintenance plant once established. It’s hardy, adaptable, and requires minimal watering and fertilization, making it great for beginners and busy gardeners.
• Q: What condition will the bare-root Vinca Minor live plants arrive in? A: Your creeping myrtle bare roots will arrive carefully packaged, in a dormant or semi-dormant state, which is ideal for successful transplanting and reduces stress during shipping.
• Q: When is the best time to plant Vinca Minor bare roots? A: The best time to plant bare-root Vinca Minor is in the spring or fall when temperatures are moderate. This allows the plants to establish roots before extreme weather.
• Q: Will Vinca Minor survive winter in my zone? A: Yes, Vinca Minor is hardy in USDA Zones 4-9, meaning it can tolerate and survive cold winters in a wide range of climates across the United States.
• Q: Is Vinca Minor toxic to pets? A: Yes, it is important to note that Vinca Minor is considered toxic to pets if ingested. Gardeners with pets should be aware of this characteristic.
• Q: What are the main uses for Vinca Minor in the garden? A: Periwinkle ground cover is excellent for erosion control, weed suppression, covering large areas, enhancing shady spots, and providing year-round evergreen foliage with spring flowers.
• Q: How far apart should I space the bare roots when planting? A: For dense coverage, it is recommended to space your Vinca Minor bare roots 8-12 inches apart. This allows them to quickly grow together to form a solid ground cover.