[Native Gardening] [PA_wildflowers] periwinkle

 

 

In the midst of leaf raking today, I discovered that a patch of periwinkle (vinca minor, I think) has spread a great deal over the past summer and now clearly aspires to world domination. 

It was here when we bought the house, sixteen years ago, and to date it seemed willing to stay put, with a little discipline, lo these many years. Clearly, that's no longer the case.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the best or most effective way to contain it or get rid of it? Today I was pulling it out in great handfuls, but (a) it's a tough little so-and-so, and doesn't come easily and (b) I can see that I'm leaving a great deal behind.

Do I need to get in and hoe it out? I hate to get too destructive with the soil, especially because there are natives in the same bed.

When I am down to bare soil--which looks like where it's all going--is there a native that I could plant that might be especially good at suppressing the rogue vinca? It's a shady bank, so asarum canadense seems one possibility--it does spread and cover the ground so nicely. What else might be good?

Kathleen Domenig

State College, Pennsylvania

USA

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