Cinquefoil potentilla fruticosa. Cinquefoil shrub: growing for joy and comfort. Site selection and soil

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. It is 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. The root system is 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 are 2-3 (4) cm in diameter, all shades of yellow, solitary or 2-7 in racemes 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, moist 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 of planting hole: 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 transplantation is carried out in early spring, in the period after the snow melts and the soil thaws, but you can also plant cinquefoil 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.

Cinquefoil shrub: description

In nature Kuril tea (other names - cinquefoil , bloodroot And dasiphora ) is very widespread. It is found in Siberia and Far East, in the mountains of Altai and Central Asia, in Mongolia, China and Japan, in Western Europe and North America. In total, about 15 types of Kuril tea are known. All of them are deciduous shrubs no more than one and a half meters high. Mature stems of Kuril tea are covered with grayish-brown flaky bark, yellow or white flowers have 5 petals. Inflorescences - in the form of an umbrella or brush - are located at the ends of the shoots.

Cinquefoil shrub: application

There are varieties with fountain-shaped and cushion-shaped and variants. The size and shape of a bush in an adult plant are very diverse, and the growth rate of many of them can border on. From fast growing plants low border hedges are obtained. They cut well and keep their shape well. These are excellent soloists in open spaces.

Slowly growing dwarfs will take their rightful place in and make up interesting company or brightly colored. Creeping or white-flowered varieties can be used to create compositions from or various ones, especially with blue needles. Beautiful combinations they create yellow-flowered varieties with lilac flowers, or, as well as gray fescue and molinia. Among the shrubs, cultivars will become spectacular partners of cinquefoil.

An important advantage Potentilla remains hers decorative look throughout the season. From Indian summer until frost, the colors of plants become more and more saturated, and the leaves retain their attractive green hue with a silvery tint. Placing it in autumn ensembles will smooth out the contrasting transitions of foliage in other plants.

Cinquefoil shrub: care

For good flowering, cinquefoil must be planted on sunny place into rich, moisture-absorbing soil. Regular fertilizing enhances flowering. In hot or dry climates, the bushes are watered regularly, and trunk circle mulch to retain moisture in the soil. To ensure abundant flowering and maintain the beautiful shape of the bush, regular spring pruning is needed. In April-May, the bushes are cut by half or a third of the length of their shoots, depending on the growth rate of the plant. By trimming the bush you can give it an interesting shape, such as a ball. Or grow a small “tree”. To do this, in the spring, several straight-growing shoots are selected, intertwined, and the rest are removed. At a height of about 40 cm, all buds and small branches are removed. The future crown is cut off, leaving shoots 10-12 cm long. This “standard” blooms in the first year. In subsequent years, the buds that wake up on the stems are removed, and the crown is formed in the spring.

Green cuttings are the easiest way to get new plants. From the end of June until the last ten days of July, you can cut off young shoots and plant them in cuttings under film or in a greenhouse. Air humidity should be high, and the cuttings themselves should be shaded from direct sunlight. In just two weeks you will receive new young plants. They can be left in the cuttings for the winter or immediately planted in a new place. Creeping and spherical varieties They also root well by layering. To do this, young shoots are selected from the lower part of the crown and pinned. The place where the cuttings are pressed to the ground is covered with soil. The next season, the finished plant is separated from the mother plant and planted in the garden.

Cinquefoil shrub: problems and solutions

Problematic varieties include cinquefoil varieties with red and pink flowers. The fact is that an increase in night temperatures in mid-July leads to a cessation of the production of the pigment responsible for the bright color of the petals. From this red-flowered varieties like Red Ace become orange or yellow rather than bright scarlet. This cannot be avoided if the plant is planted in full sun. However, do not be upset, as the correct color will return to the bush as soon as the cool August nights arrive. It is during this period that all brightly colored cultivars begin to actively bloom, striking everyone with the richness of their shades. The color of the petals becomes most intense during Indian summer.

Plantings are watered and mulched with peat. Further watering only in very hot weather. Rarely affected by diseases and pests (sometimes rust). Foliar treatment with potassium permanganate or boric acid makes plants resistant to fungal diseases.

The cinquefoil plant (from the Latin Potentilla) is a one-, two-, and perennial herbaceous plant or subshrub, a representative of the Rosaceae family. Both cinquefoil grass and cinquefoil shrub are grown in garden culture. There are more than five thousand plant species, most of which are common in the Northern Hemisphere.

The name comes from the word potent - translated from Latin language means powerful, strong. This is most likely due to the powerful medicinal properties of some plant species. We call the type of cinquefoil shrubby Kuril tea, five-leafed plant. According to legend, Ilya Muromets inhaled the aroma of the “mighty man” to gain strength. Since ancient times, decoctions and infusions of cinquefoil have been taken in Rus' to restore strength and treat various diseases. Today, the plant is widely used to decorate borders, alpine slides, hedges, and as a tapeworm on a green lawn.

The stems of the plant are erect, erect or expanded, and may be creeping. The leaves are pinnate or multipartite, the color is green, there may be a gray tint. Shrub species of cinquefoil reach a height of about 50 cm and a width of about 1 m. The inflorescences are in most cases corymbose-paniculate, there are species with single flowers. The corollas can be colored golden yellow, orange, red, pink, white, or cream. The flowering stage lasts from May to September. The naked, sometimes pubescent fruit consists of many achenes - from 10 to 80 pieces.

Growing cinquefoil from seeds

Sowing in the ground

Can be produced: the seeds will undergo natural stratification, and friendly shoots will appear in the spring. The bed is prepared in advance: it is carefully dug up, humus is added (a bucket per square meter), and the soil is allowed to settle. The ground should be carefully leveled with a rake, the seeds should be scattered over the surface as sparingly as possible and embedded into the ground with a rake.

In the spring, the emerging seedlings are thinned out, leaving 8-10 cm between seedlings. Grown plants are planted at a distance of 20-40 cm.

Growing for seedlings

In order not to risk the seed, the safest thing to do is. Do this in March. Fill the box with a peat-sand mixture, moisten the soil, and distribute the seeds over the surface. Crops must be covered with transparent plastic film. Maintain the air temperature within 15-18º C, when the seedlings have two true leaves, pick them up and plant them in separate cups. Seedlings grow slowly. They are planted in open ground towards the end of summer. For the winter, young plants will need shelter. Flowering will begin next year.

Vegetative propagation of cinquefoil

Cinquefoil can be propagated by dividing the bush (July-August), layering (in spring), cuttings (in spring from April to May and in autumn at the beginning of September).

Dividing the bush

You can divide the rhizome up to 4 times summer age. Dig up the bush and divide it into parts with a sharp, disinfected knife. Each division should contain 2-3 growth buds. Treat the roots with a growth stimulator and plant the cuttings in the ground. The distance between plants should be 20-40 cm.

Reproduction by layering

Layering is the easiest way. Choose a low-growing shoot according to outside make a cut, bend it to the ground and place it with the cut down in the dug groove, cover with earth. By autumn, the cuttings will have formed a root system. Separate it from the main plant and replant it permanent place.

Propagation by cuttings

For cuttings, apical shoots are used. The length of the cutting should be 8-10 cm, remove the flowers. Can be rooted in a container with wet perlite or in open ground in a shady area of ​​the garden, covered with a cut plastic bottle or glass jar. Spray several times a day. To avoid weakening the cuttings, emerging buds must be removed. Plant rooted cuttings in a permanent place. Cover with spruce branches for the winter.

Planting cinquefoil in open ground

Produced in early spring, as soon as the snow melts and the soil thaws.

• The planting hole should be 2 times wider and deeper than the size of the container with the seedling (they are purchased from nurseries).
• Place a layer of lime gravel at the bottom of the planting hole, fill it halfway with a mixture of leaf soil, humus, and sand in a ratio of 2:2:1, add 150 g of mineral fertilizers to the mixture.
• The root collar of the seedling should be slightly above the level of the surface of the planting hole. Fill the remaining space with garden soil, compact it, and water it.
• Maintain constant soil moisture for a month after planting.
• To prevent the soil from drying out quickly, you can mulch the area around the bush with bark, sawdust, and straw.

Site selection and soil

Most types of cinquefoil grow well in light areas with shade during the midday hours. The soil needs to be loose, nutritious, slightly acidic, with good drainage and a small amount of lime.

But there are nuances depending on the type of plant. White cinquefoil loves shade. The brilliant cinquefoil will feel best on the south side and in sandy soil. Arctic cinquefoil requires acidic soil.

Cinquefoil care

Cinquefoil potentilla fruticosa care and cultivation from seeds Pictured is the variety Red Ace

Care herbaceous plant Potentilla, just like behind a bush, does not require significant effort.

Weeding from weeds, loosening the soil, not frequent watering, fertilizing, mulching the soil and removing faded flowers.

Watering

It is necessary to water only in the absence of precipitation. For bushes, one bucket of warm water once every two weeks for each bush is enough.

Spray with water only occasionally: on a stuffy summer evening, at the end of a hot day.

If you mulch the soil with sawdust or peat in the spring, you will need to loosen and water even less often. Add mulch 2-3 more times in the summer.

Feeding

Feed mineral fertilizers For flowering plants only three times per season is enough (May, July, August or early September).

Trimming

Shrub cinquefoil requires pruning. Do this before the buds open in early spring and with the onset of autumn. To keep the bush tidy, in the spring it is necessary to remove last year's growth by about a third; in the fall, eliminate old or overly elongated shoots. Also remove dry, broken branches growing inward, and remove wilted buds.

Cinquefoil in autumn and winter

In the fall, the annual cinquefoil is removed and the area is dug up. Prune shrubby cinquefoils. To prevent diseases and pests, it is recommended to spray the bushes with Bordeaux mixture.

The plant is frost-resistant. Shelter will be required only for young plants planted in the fall and certain delicate varieties.

Pests and diseases of cinquefoil

Cinquefoil is rarely susceptible to disease or pests.

Possible damage to rust, spotting, powdery mildew. For annuals, this is not particularly scary - they will not lose their decorative properties, and in the fall they must be disposed of. Perennials must be treated with a fungicide.

Cutworms (faded butterflies, similar to moths) are pests of cinquefoil. When they appear, treat the plant with an insecticide.

Types and varieties of cinquefoil with photos and names

There are many types and varieties of cinquefoil, let's look at the most popular ones.

First type - Herbaceous cinquefoils

Potentilla apennina

A perennial plant with trifoliate leaves with silvery pubescence. The color of the corollas is white and pink.

White cinquefoil Potentilla alba

A perennial plant 8-25 cm high. It has complex palmate-lobed basal leaves, no stem leaves. Flowers with a diameter of about 3 cm are white. They gather in loose umbrella or racemose inflorescences. The length of the peduncle is 25 cm.

Potentilla anserina

Pinnately compound leaves about 20 cm long are collected in basal rosettes. The underside of the leaf has pubescence. Peduncles end in single yellow flowers.

Nepalese cinquefoil Potentilla nepalensis

Nepalese cinquefoil Potentilla nepalensis variety Miss Willmott Miss Willmott photo

Perennial up to half a meter high, has straight branched stems. The leaves are large (up to 30 cm long), palmate, dark green in color. Flowers with a diameter of 3 cm are colored light pink, dark pink with veins or red. Paniculate inflorescences show off from July to autumn.

Popular varieties:

• Roxana - a shade of salmon-orange flowers with streaks of darker color;
• Miss Wilmott - has pink-cherry flowers with a darker center;
• Floris is a pale salmon-colored corolla with a red-orange eye.

Cinquefoil erect or straight, also known as galangal Potentilla erecta

The plant is about 20 cm high with an erect stem; it is leafy and branched in the upper part. The leaves are trifoliate, the basal leaves are sessile, the stem leaves are on long thin petioles. The flowers are solitary, about 1 cm in diameter, blooming in June-August.

Silver cinquefoil Potentilla argentea

A perennial plant with a tuberous root system. The arched stems reach a height of 30 cm. The basal leaves and up to the middle part of the stem are 5-7 divided, the upper leaves are 3-5 divided, the underside of the leaf is pubescent with white hair. Small flowers with a diameter of 12 mm are collected in a corymbose-paniculate inflorescence. The color of the flowers is yellow.

Potentilla x hybrida hybrid cinquefoil

All are combined into a view garden forms and varieties of hybrid origin. Most plants reach a height of about 90 cm. The stems are erect, strongly branched, and pubescent. Lower leaves attached on long petioles, stem ones are sessile. The shape of the leaves is trifoliate, palmately divided. The flowers are velvety, about 4 cm in diameter, collected in loose racemes. Their color is pink, red, dark purple, yellow.

Popular varieties are:

• Master Floris - blooms long and profusely, the flowers are large, simple, yellow.

• Yellow Queen is a plant up to 30 cm high, has yellow flowers with glossy petals;
• Volcano - has double flowers of bright red color.

Popular types of herbaceous cinquefoils include golden, hairy, two-flowered, longleaf, deceptive, silverleaf, tansy, Krantza, Tonga and many others.

The second type is shrubby cinquefoil

Daurian cinquefoil Pentaphylloides davurica

Reaches a height of about 60 cm. The leaves are 5-parted, the surface is smooth, Bottom part covered with bluish hair. The flowers are about 2.5 cm in diameter, often arranged solitary, can be collected in umbrella inflorescences, the corolla color is white.

Pentaphylloides fruticosa

The bush grows up to 1.5, branches well, very hardy. The stems are covered with brown or grayish bark. The leaves are entire, elongated, at first painted in a soft green color, over time silvery pubescence appears. The corollas, about 2 cm in diameter, are golden yellow in color; they grow singly or are collected in racemose inflorescences.

Low growing varieties

White cinquefoil variety Potentilla fruticosa ‘Tilford Cream’ photo

The most popular low-growing varieties: Goldstar, Goldfinger, Jolaina, Dakota Sunrise, Abbottwood, Reinesenberg - the color of the flowers is yellow-orange, Rhodocalyx and Farrers White - have white flowers.

Tall varieties

Potentilla fruticosa variety potentilla fruticosa Elizabeth photo

Catherine Dykes, Elizabeth - varieties over 1 m high, have yellow flowers.

Frost-resistant varieties

Bisi, Darts Golddigger, Goldterppich - frost-resistant species with gray-silver flowers.

Compact covering varieties

Compact varieties that require shelter for the winter:

Cobrld, Klondike - have yellow flowers;

Parvifolia, Red Robbin, Red Ice - color range from orange-yellow to brick-red;

Eastleigh Cream - creamy white flowers;

Pretty Polly, Daydown, Blink, Royal Flash – different shades pink.

The following shrubby species of cinquefoil are attracted: small-leaved cinquefoil, Manchurian, dryaniflora, Friedrichsen.

Useful properties of cinquefoil and contraindications

The medicinal properties are mainly found in white, erect and galangal. Extracts from the herbs and roots of these species are almost identical in their medicinal properties, especially when used externally. The use of preparations from the ground part of white cinquefoil orally stimulates the central nervous system, extracts from the roots of the plant promote kidney function. White Potentilla and galangal are used to treat various gastrointestinal diseases. Alcohol tinctures of white cinquefoil are used for inflammation of the thyroid gland. The tincture is prepared in this way: grind the dry root of the plant and infuse it with vodka, then filter. White cinquefoil (especially the roots) contains almost all the useful elements of the periodic table.

Cinquefoil galangal contains substances that have an astringent, bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effect.

Cinquefoil anserina is rich essential oils, tannins, starch, flavonoids, quinic and ascorbic acid.

The shrub species Kuril cinquefoil also has medicinal properties. Kuril tea is used as a diuretic, choleretic, hemostatic, antiviral, anti-allergenic agent, and is effective for diarrhea and constipation.

Preparations from cinquefoil, galangal and anserina should absolutely not be taken by people prone to blood clots, as well as by people with hypotension. In any case, consult your doctor before use.

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. Proper planting and propagation allow you to quickly grow 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 type of ornamental planting has 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 individually or in 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 amount 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 of the plant must 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 autumn, when there is a sufficient amount of moisture in the soil. Confident and correct cultivation of shrubby cinquefoil involves 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 a high germination rate. 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 the lower part of the 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 is a shrub of the Rosaceae family.

Cinquefoil ‘Tangerine’

Description and varieties.

This type of cinquefoil is a low (up to 1 m) shrub with a spherical crown and complex pinnate leaves consisting of small (about 0.5 cm in length) leaflets. The leaves of the cinquefoil are pubescent, bright green on top and silvery on the underside.

The original species has bright yellow flowers, 2–3 cm in diameter, with five petals. The plant develops quite quickly; grown from cuttings, it blooms in the second year and gives good growth.

The shrubby cinquefoil has a subspecies - Manchurian cinquefoil (Potentilla mandshuriensis), which Russian botanists often classify as an independent species.

Modern varieties of cinquefoil have very different flower colors; they are united by the fact that they bloom for a very long time - from the beginning of June to the end of October. In this regard, cinquefoil outperforms many other shrubs.

Cinquefoil bush ‘Abbotswood’ (Abbotswood) - a very popular variety, shrub height 80 - 100 cm, white flowers, cushion-shaped crown.

L. shrub ‘Elisabeth’ (Elizabeth) - more low-growing variety- 60 - 80 cm, interesting bluish-gray-green foliage, yellow flowers.

Variety ‘Goldfinger’ (Goldfinger) It has a fast growth rate, taller than other varieties (up to 130 cm), the flowers are bright yellow.

L. shrub ‘Goldstar’ (Goldstar ) - gray-green leaves and very large, eye-catching yellow flowers. The height of this variety of cinquefoil is 80 - 100 cm.

L. shrub ‘Goldteppich’ (Goldteppich) - prostrate low (only 50 cm) shrub, yellow flowers, excellent for small rockeries and rock gardens.

L. shrub ‘Hopley’s Orange’ (Hopley’s Orange) — orange flowers and leaves pubescent with silvery hairs (height 60 - 80 cm).

L. bush ‘Klondike’ (Klondike) - height 100 - 120 cm, light yellow flowers, crown has a somewhat elongated shape in the vertical direction.

Variety Potentilla bush ‘Kobold’ (Kobold) It has compact sizes (40 - 60 cm) and large bright yellow flowers.

L. shrubby ‘Longacre’ - this variety has pale yellow flowers, regular leaves, height 90 cm.

L. shrub ‘Lovely Pink’ (‘Pink Beauty’) - a very decorative low-growing (50 cm) variety with pink flowers unusual for cinquefoil.

Variety 'Manchu' - belongs to the subspecies Manchurian cinquefoil, with white flowers.

L. shrub ‘Mango Tango’ (‘Uman’) - unusual two-color yellow-orange large flowers. The bush itself is dense, low (up to 60 cm), erect.

L. fruticosa ‘Marian Red Robin’ (‘Marrob’) - very beautiful deep red flowers, height 40 - 60 cm. Compared to the original species, this variety is less resistant to drought, frost and winter soaking, which should be taken into account when choosing a place for planting.

L. shrub ‘Pretty Polly’ - low-growing (40 - 60 cm), delicate light green foliage, pink flowers.

L. shrubby ‘Princess’ (Princess) - height about 60 cm, flowers are pale pink, in bright sun they can turn white.

L. fruticosa ‘Red Ace’ - red flowers, bush height 60 cm. Like the ‘Marian Red Robin’ variety, it is not very resistant to adverse environmental factors.

L. bush ‘Red Jocker’ (Red Joker) - Compared to other red-flowered cinquefoils, it is quite resistant to harsh conditions. The flowers are blood red.

Cinquefoil ‘Tangerine’ - tangerine (copper-orange) flowers, crown shape is spherical, dense, height 50 - 60 cm.

Variety 'Tilford Cream' It is distinguished by an outstretched crown about 40 cm high, cream flowers, dark green leaves.

Growing conditions and care.

Cinquefoil is light-loving, but can grow in partial shade. Perfectly adapted to urban conditions. Undemanding to soil. Prefers well-drained, fresh and moist, sandy or loamy, slightly acidic or neutral soils. Resistant to heat and drought. Tolerates alkaline soils.

It is practically not affected by pests and diseases. Reacts well to pruning. Watering is necessary only in dry summers. You can learn in detail from the experience of one of the visitors to our site; planting of this shrub is also described there.

Reproduction.

The easiest way to propagate shrubby cinquefoil is by cuttings. Cuttings are cut from young shoots (from mid-June), three internodes are left and placed at an angle under a film in a rooting substrate, which is kept moist.