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Potentilla: 

Common Name: Cinquefoil

The common name comes from from 5-petaled flowers, the plants also have 5-fingered or lobbed leaves that are often silver-haired and attractive in their own right.

The plants are generally low growing but the flowers may be bourn on long trailing stems that will scramble up neighbouring plants. They flower for a long period in flushes between May and September (and often beyond in mild weather) if regularly deadheaded.

They prefer a fairly sunny spot and soil that does not dry out completely. They will self seed and some types will come true. Others must be propagated by division. The only pests likely are aphids, which have little effect on the plants.

Potentilla atrosanguinea: Lovely silver leaves and bright red flowers in early summer. Low, mat forming plants for sun, doing well in dry conditions.

 

Potentilla Blazeaway

Vermillion highlighted with bronzy orange. Green leaves. Clump-forming plants.

 

Potentilla Etna

Dark blackish red single flowers on trailing stems. This is the plant commonly sold as "Etna" however the original true plant (now lost?) was semi-double with a yellow edge.

 

Potentilla Flambeau

Luscious deep velvety red double flowers. 

 

Gibson's ScarletPotentilla Gibson's Scarlet

Classic bright red single blooms. Slivery leaves. A good old garden favourite.

Potentilla William Rollison © 2006 SpecialPerennials.comPotentilla William Rollison

Lovely orange and yellow blend. Bushy plants with trailing flower stems.

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