Lesser periwinkle
Vinca minor
In Dutch: Kleine maagdenpalm
PerennialsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 15 to 30 cm
- Spread
- Creeps outward, runners up to 50 cm
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Sun to full shade
- Soil
- Humus-rich, ideally loam
- Water
- Moist, but not wet
- Maintenance
- Low
- Flowers
- April to June, light blue
- For bees
- Little: some nectar for bumblebees, April and May
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Stay green
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Mildly: do not eat the leaves
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €1.21 to €1.85 each
- Price, grown
- About €3.93 to €4.50 each, in a large pot
Through the year
- Leaf
- all year
- Flower
- April to June
- Fruit
- no noticeable fruit