Periwinkle

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As spring is time for planting, many families like to use Radunitsa [a holiday] to plant new flowers on the graves of their loved ones. Some families reject this idea saying that whatever naturally grows on the grave is what the deceased person wants to be there. Still, most people decorate the graves of their dead for spring by planting flowers.

Periwinkle is a common one that represents everlasting love and everlasting life after death. This flower commonly adorns Ukrainian cemeteries where it is planted as a ground cover. Periwinkle’s ability to spread and occupy the whole territory of the graveyard soon after being planted annoys some people, although our ancestors chose this flower as a symbol of everlasting love and life because of this ability and the fact that it trails on the ground. In folk witchcraft, Graveyard Periwinkle (or Periwinkle harvested from a Graveyard) is used to appease the Walking Dead.

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