A fast-growing shrub with feathery dark green leaves and light orange flowers.

Crown diameter of an adult plant (m): 1

Height of an adult plant (m): 0.8

Description

Cinquefoil bush Annette is an unpretentious fast-growing shrub.

It tolerates haircuts well and retains its decorative compact appearance for a long time.

Used as a border, low hedge, in compositions with trees and shrubs, in rock gardens, on rocky terraces.

Does not tolerate drought well.

Crown

Needles/Foliage

Bloom

Landing

Loves sun and partial shade. It should be planted on light, well-drained, moist, fertile soils.

In dense group planting, the bushes are placed at a distance of 60-80 cm from one another. Planting in holes 50-60 cm deep. Drainage - layer broken bricks or pebbles 15-20 cm thick. Humus and sand are added to the existing garden soil. The root collar should be located at ground level. If the soils are poor, you can add mineral fertilizers by adding up to 100 g of complex fertilizer to each planting hole.

Saplings with an open root system are planted in spring and autumn. Seedlings with a lump of earth from a container - with early spring until late autumn.

Care

Care: loosening, weeding, fertilizing, sanitary and anti-aging pruning. Requires formative pruning at a young age, and pruning “to the stump” at a more mature age if the lower part of the bush is exposed. The bushes are trimmed once every three years. You can cut it in September: in this case, non-lignified shoots are shortened by an average of a third. If the procedure took place in April, then the shoots should be shortened by approximately 10-20 cm; in the spring this causes active growth and branching.

Water regularly, especially in hot weather.

Before flowering, the plants are fertilized: 30 g of superphosphate and 10 g of potassium sulfate are dissolved in 10 liters of warm water.

Diseases: powdery mildew. Protection - fungicides.

Reproduction

Kuril bush tea (Cinquefoil fruticosa), Dasiphora fruticosa ( Potentilla fruticosa)

Kuril tea- a great plant for your garden. It can also grow on open place, and in light shade and even tolerates short-term spring flooding of the site. It can be planted in the garden alone on the lawn, on an alpine hill, in groups, and is suitable for creating a low hedge. Decorative effect give linear plantings along the paths.

The genus Kuril tea has 15 species. Previously plants this species was classified as a cinquefoil and was called Potentilla, then renamed dasyphora due to the abundant pubescence on the leaves. For the shape of its leaves, the shrub received another name - five-leafed plant.

White cinquefoil, or Kuril tea Abbotswood(Abbotswood) - one of the best varieties with pure white large flowers, 80-90 cm high and a cushion-shaped crown up to 1.3 cm in diameter. The leaves are light green, the flowers are pure white, up to 3.5 cm in diameter, solitary or collected in small racemes. Characterized by abundant and long flowering, from June to October. It easily tolerates haircuts and holds its shape for a long time.

Has good shoot-forming ability. Blooms profusely and annually. Flower buds are formed at the tops of annual growths.

Kuril tea, planting and care

It is preferable to plant Kuril tea seedlings with an open root system at the end of April in planting holes 50-60 cm deep. The root collar is not buried, but is located at soil level. When planting and in the spring, apply the full mineral fertilizer at the rate of 100-150 g per 1 sq.m. Before flowering, potassium and phosphorus fertilizers are applied.

The distance when planting between bushes in a row is 60-80 cm. The place for planting shrubby cinquefoil is chosen to be sunny; in the shade, flowering is reduced.

The soil is suitable for ordinary garden soils, which must be loose; compacted soils require loosening to a depth of 5-10 cm. clay soils drainage is required with a 20 cm layer of broken brick or river pebbles.

For the harsh winters of the Moscow region, varieties with yellow flowers, as the closest to natural look. The varieties with pink, orange and red flowers suffer the most from freezing. Severely thinned bushes lose their decorative properties, and in some years flowering may not occur.

Description

Cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa) or Kuril bush tea is a plant that has long been introduced into cultivation and grown in nurseries as an ornamental tree and shrub. IN last years It is used to prepare drinks and as a medicinal raw material.

This is a perennial, strongly branching shrub up to 1 m tall, with shoots of a reddish-brown color.
and golden yellow flowers of the Rosaceae family. The leaves are pinnate, consisting of 5 (3-7) oblong-ovate leaflets, green above, sparsely pubescent, silky below. Flowers lemon color, large, up to 3 cm in diameter, solitary or in small racemose or corymbose inflorescences. The fruits are numerous dry nuts. Flowering continues from late June to September.

A cold-resistant species and capable of growing in areas where there is permafrost. Undemanding to soil. It grows in nature in sparse coniferous and deciduous forests, on rocks, in subalpine and alpine meadows. In natural habitats, plants grow very slowly and by the age of 20 the height of the bushes is no more than 30 cm. When grown in household plots in Belarus, by 4-5 years, Kuril bush tea reaches a height of 70-90 cm.

or Kuril bush tea is valued and how ornamental plant. This beautiful flowering shrub with a long flowering period, suitable for single and group plantings, lining groups of taller plants and hedges, planting among stones in rock gardens. It easily tolerates decorative haircuts and is almost not affected by diseases and pests. There are hybrids and varieties with larger flowers of white, salmon, and orange colors.

Propagated by seeds and vegetatively - by cuttings or dividing the bush. Sowing of seeds is carried out in spring without preliminary preparation in a film greenhouse. Used as a substrate leaf soil. Annual seedlings in unthickened crops reach 0.3-0.4 m and are suitable for planting on permanent place. Plants, especially when grown in a film greenhouse, in the first year of life can go through all stages of development from seed to flowering and seed ripening.

In Siberia, Kuril bush tea has long been used to prepare a tea drink. Brew it like regular tea. A well-infused drink has a pleasant taste, color and aroma. Gives vigor and increases performance, has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system. People call this plant “mighty”.

Life form:

deciduous shrub

Crown:

Spherical, dense.

Growth rate:

Fast. The annual growth is 20 cm in height and 20 cm in width.

Height 1.5 m, crown diameter 1.5 m.

Durability:

20 years

Flowers:

Flat round, golden yellow, 3 cm.

Leaves:

Elliptical, yellowish-green, 1 to 3 cm.

Decorative:

Cinquefoil shrub is decorative primarily due to its abundant and long-lasting flowering.

Application

Single plantings, decorative groups.

Potentilla fruticosa leaves contain a lot ascorbic acid, like black black currant berries. In Siberia, tea is brewed from dried and fresh cinquefoil leaves.

Growing conditions

to light: light-loving, but grows well in partial shade

to moisture: demanding

to soil: demanding

to temperature: frost-resistant

Homeland:

Europe, Caucasus, Siberia, Far East, Central Asia, Mongolia, Japan.

Planting and care

Landing Features:

When creating hedges, the distance between plants is 60-70 cm.

Soil mixture:

Turf soil, humus and sand - 2:2:1.

A drainage layer of 10-20 cm of crushed stone is required.

Optimal acidity - pH 7-8.5

Feeding:

In spring, 100-150 g of mineral fertilizers are applied. Before flowering, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers are applied.

Watering:

It can survive without watering for a long time, but does not do well in dry air. In hot and dry summers, you should water 3-4 times a season, 1-1.5 buckets per plant. In the evening, it is recommended to spray, being careful not to damage the flowers. Watering norm.

Young plants require more frequent and abundant watering during dry periods.

Loosening:

Simultaneously with the removal of weeds to a depth of 5-10 cm.

Mulching:

After planting, a layer of 5-7 cm.

Trimming:

Once every 5-6 years, in the second half of April, they are pruned, leaving stumps of 15-20 cm. The branches grow quickly. After radical pruning, be sure to feed them with fertilizers. You don’t have to resort to radical pruning, but cut out weak and old branches every spring.

Diseases:

Rust

Preparing for winter:

Decorative forms are mostly winter-hardy; only in severe winters do the ends of annual shoots freeze. With age and thanks to fertilizing, frost resistance increases.

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How to turn growing plants into personal plot for beauty and comfort as a reason for constant joy for success? Everything is quite simple - you need to choose the appropriate crops. Cinquefoil shrub is unpretentious and does not require special care. This shrub was popular among gardeners of past centuries. Therefore, in our time, shrubby cinquefoil is quite relevant and widespread - its varieties have all consumer qualities. Correct fit and reproduction allow you to quickly breed it in your garden. This plant is a low (one to one and a half meters high) branching shrubs with a thick, dense crown. The decorative and attractive nature of flowers has ensured that they receive the attention and demand of numerous professional gardeners and ordinary amateur flower growers. They prefer to plant such plants in separate units at a distance from each other, and to create a bright foreground from them during group plantings. Look at the photo of shrubby cinquefoil - this is an amazing powerful plant for landscape design:

Features and exact description of cinquefoil shrub (with photo)

The characteristics of the plant are minor and are taken into account by the precise description of the shrubby cinquefoil presented below. This variety ornamental plantings have fibrous rhizomes. The feathery, slightly pubescent leaves are most often five-fingered in nature, which is why cinquefoil is also called cinquefoil. In many European countries, the plant is known as Dasiphora, which translates as “bearing thick hairs.” The crown of the bushes has a hemispherical shape. Of particular importance in the description of the shrubby cinquefoil is external structure colors. Look at the photo of varieties and varietal types:

Abundant, colorful flowering is observed from June to October, so this duration can be called one of the obvious advantages of the plant. Numerous flowers are quite large in size - the diameter can reach 3.5 centimeters, they are usually located separately or bright inflorescences. Each flower contains up to thirty thousand small stamens, thanks to which the centers become fluffy and showy.

The ripening fruits make the plant even more decorative. Covering the dense crown of the bushes with peculiar “buttons,” the collected achenes ripen to a dark brown color and also contain numerous fine hairs.

Based on color diversity, the plant is divided into three main groups - white, yellow and pink cinquefoil. However, depending on the variety, colors and shades may vary. Most often in public flower beds or in city gardens you can see yellow shrubby cinquefoil, which looks decent and successfully shades other types of ornamental plants.

In addition to their beauty, shrubs have whole line useful and practical qualities that are used in folk medicine and pharmacology. The flowers, leaves, and shoots of the plant contain a large number of resins, alkaloids, vitamins C, P. Tea that is brewed from this variety of herbs is quite popular - the drink has choleretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antimicrobial properties. With the help of decoctions, burns, boils, and various wounds are healed.

Planting and proper cultivation of shrubby cinquefoil

For correct height And abundant flowering plants need to be produced quality care. The shrub prefers well-lit, but at the same time slightly shaded places - being a light-loving and heat-loving representative of the flora, they may not withstand direct ultraviolet rays. In this case, their color becomes dull and inexpressive. Planting of shrubby cinquefoil is carried out in early spring or in autumn, when there is sufficient moisture in the soil. Confident and proper cultivation Potentilla shrub implies a number of nuances that you need to know:

When planting shrubby cinquefoil, you need to carefully and carefully choose the location. Cultivated plant varieties are usually planted in leeward, shaded areas on the south side. The best option, when the flowers are actively illuminated by the sun in the morning, and at midday they find themselves in the shade.

It would be most appropriate to plant ornamental pets in light, well-drained soils with an alkaline or slightly acidic reaction. Group planting implies a distance of at least 60 cm between bushes. Planting in any type of wetlands is undesirable.

Types of propagation of shrubby cinquefoil - by cuttings and other methods

This type of plant can reproduce using seeds, green or woody cuttings, as well as special layering. Another propagation method is dividing the bush. The most popular methods are propagation of shrubby cinquefoil by cuttings and seeds. Types of dividing a bush are rarely used; gardeners usually use other methods.

When planting shrubs for the first time, many people prefer to use seeds. The seeds of these flowers are quite small; they are usually sown in late autumn. If sowing is done in early spring, the seeds are stratified in advance. In this case, there is no need to bury the seeds - they are poured onto the ground and lightly pressed down. This method of planting has high percent germination. The next year, the sprouted young shoots are transplanted to a permanent place (previously by diving). Bushes from seeds produce high-quality color already in the second year after planting the seeds.

It is recommended to prepare materials for cuttings in June. To do this, dense, strong shoots are selected, which need to be cut into approximately 20 cm long. Flowers and Bottom part leaves are removed. In order for the cuttings to take root faster, before planting they can be kept in a heteroauxin solution (treatment with Kornevin solution) for 12 hours.

Root cuttings with roots under glass or in greenhouse conditions. To increase humidity, they need to be sprayed frequently and regularly. When the first buds appear, they should be cut off immediately, otherwise the blooming flowers will greatly weaken the plant. Using numerous photos of shrubby cinquefoil, you can analyze how correctly it was planted and whether it is cared for accordingly.

Already from the age of 4, the bushes can be divided, planting parts in autumn and spring. Selected shoots with growth buds are separated from the mother bush and planted in a permanent place. You need to water constantly.

The need and benefits of pruning cinquefoil bush

The need and benefits of constant monitoring of the quantity and length of young growth is constantly discussed by designers and gardeners. If you don't trim the plants, they quickly become overgrown and look unattractive. In addition, the lower part of the bushes may be exposed. Therefore, in early spring or late autumn At the end of flowering, the cinquefoil shrub is pruned, in which the branches directed into the bushes or dried branches are carefully removed.

Every 3-5 years, the plants are rejuvenated - one third of all shoots are cut to ground level. It is also relevant decorative pruning, with the help of which shrubs are given any desired shape.

Variety of varieties of shrubby cinquefoil (with photo)

There are more than 500 varieties of cinquefoil, which are generally divided into subspecies with white flowers, yellow flowers, pink and red. Depending on the variety, its use is possible in various decorative variations. The most relevant are the following varieties of shrubby cinquefoil:

• Tall and bright Abbotswood shrubby cinquefoil. The variety is highly branched and has snow-white flowers. Flowering occurs from early June to October.
  
  
  
  
• Elizabeth. Original bushes with a voluminous crown - its diameter can sometimes reach one meter. The leaves are velvety, and the flowers are large, light yellow.
  
  
• Nepalese cinquefoil. It blooms for 55 days with red and dark pink flowers.
  
  
• Tall (up to one and a half meters) shrubby Potentilla Goldfinger. Shrubs with a lush, dense crown of bright, emerald green leaves. They have large bright yellow flowers, the diameter of which reaches 4 cm.
  
  

Depending on the variety, the color of the flowers can be very diverse - from snow-white and yellow petals to bronze-orange. For many landscape designers this shrubby cinquefoil (“potentilla fruticosa”) is irreplaceable – with its help you can confidently and organically decorate modern alpine coaster, borders, rockeries, different types hedges Look at the photo of various varieties of shrubby cinquefoil:

Potentilla fruticosa

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Synonyms: Kuril bush tea, bush cinquefoil, Dasiphora fruticosa, Pentaphylloides fruticosa L., Pentaphylloides floribunda (Pursh) A.Löve, Potentilla floribunda Pursh, Potentilla rigida Wall. ex Lehm., Moguchka, Dasiphora

(Potentilla fruticosa (L.) is a species of shrubs from the genus Cinquefoil (Pentaphylloides) of the Rose family (Rosaceae). The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in “Sp. Pl. 1” 495. 1753. In culture

The range covers the entire eastern part of Siberia and the Far East, mountains in Central Asia, Mongolia, China, and Japan. Also found in North America, Europe and the Caucasus. It grows in meadows, forests, floodplains, along stream beds, on pebbles, stone deposits and in high-mountain tundras. It rises into the mountains to a height of 3600 m above sea level.

Author M. Skotnikova

It is an erect, less often spreading, highly branched shrub 10-150 cm in height. Lives up to 30 years. Root system superficial, dense, sensitive to soil compaction. The crown is erect, compact or more or less widely spreading, densely branched and heavily leafy. The branches are covered with reddish-brown or brownish-gray peeling bark. The shoots are short, often reddish, pubescent with white appressed hairs.

By T. Reeb

The leaves are pinnately compound, with 2 (less often 3) pairs of leaflets, the upper ones are sometimes trifoliate. The leaves are oblong or oblong-ovate, up to 30 mm in length and 1-10 mm in width, appressed-hairy on both sides, less often almost glabrous, short-pointed, light green to pure green, do not change color in autumn.

By T. Reeb

Flowers 2-3 (4) cm in diameter, all shades yellow color, solitary or 2-7 in racemose or corymbose inflorescences growing on the tips of the shoots. The outer linear-lanceolate sepals are entire or double-notched at the end, almost the same size as the ovoid inner ones. Petals round shape, twice as long as the sepals. Formed on the shoots of the current year. Each flower has up to 30 stamens, which makes the center of the flower fluffy. Anthers oblong. Flowering duration single flower ranges from 6 hours to 2 days and depends on temperature and humidity. It blooms in June-October, very long and quite abundantly.

Author V. Bogdanovich

The fruits are brown aggregate achenes, covered with fine hairs. The achenes are very small with a bent apex; less commonly, an achene is slightly crescent-shaped, 1.5-2 mm long and 0.7-1 mm wide. The first seeds ripen at the end of August and until September.

Varieties:

• Dasiphora fruticosa subsp. fruticosa
• Dasiphora fruticosa subsp. floribunda (Pursh) Kartesz

Varieties: more than 130 varieties have been created. Low-growing - 'Beesii' ('Nana Argentea', silver-gray foliage), 'Coronaitin Triumph', 'Dart's Golddigger' (silver-gray foliage), 'Donard Gold', 'Dakota Sunrise', 'Goldfinger' (silver-gray foliage grey), 'Goldstar', 'Goldteppich' (silver-gray foliage), 'Jolina', 'Longacre' (silver-gray foliage), 'Reisenberg' and varieties 'Abbotswood', 'Beanii', 'Farrer's White', ' Rhodocalyx' with white flowers. Tall ones - Elizabeth' ('Arbuscula', 'Sutter's Gold') and 'Kathrine Dykes' (silver-gray foliage) with yellow flowers.

Frost resistance zone: 4a (-34°С)

Location: prefers well-drained, wet soils. Mesotrophic, however, can also grow on dry, poor soils, but in this case it grows slowly, is smaller in size and blooms poorly. It is preferable to plant in sunny places.

Landing: distance between plants 60-80 cm. Dimensions landing pit: 50-60 cm. Drainage - a layer of broken bricks or pebbles 15-20 cm thick. Soil mixture: garden soil, humus and sand (2:2:1). Root collar at ground level. If the soil is poor, add mineral fertilizer (up to 100 g per hole). Planting or replanting is carried out in early spring, after the snow has melted and the soil has thawed, but cinquefoil can also be planted at the end of August - September.

Care: before flowering, plants can be fertilized: 30 g of superphosphate and 10 g of potassium sulfate are dissolved in 10 liters of warm water.

Trimming: The bushes are trimmed once every three years. In September, non-lignified shoots are pruned by a third; if they are pruned in April, the shoots are shortened by 10-20 cm. Pruning promotes active growth and improved branching. Tolerates haircuts well.

Diseases and pests: resistant to diseases and pests, but can be affected by rust.

Reproduction: seeds that are sown in the spring after 3 months of stratification or vegetatively - lignified and green cuttings, layering, root suckers, or by dividing the bushes.

Usage: highly ornamental plant. Used in borders, rock gardens, groups. A good honey plant.