Potentilla fruticosa - Cultivation Notes
This low growing shrub prefers a well drained fertile soil, including chalk - but not sticky clay! Plant in full / half sun. Potentilla benefits form a winter organic mulch and light trim to shape.
Strengths, Weaknesses & Design Usage
Strengths of Potentilla fruticosa:
- All round tough plant suitable for problem areas
- Suitable for exposed coastal planting
- Tolerates full sun and sandy, drought-prone soils
- Tolerates cold exposed locations
- Tolerates heavy clay soils
Design & Plant Use for Potentilla fruticosa:
- Low growing ground cover planting on dry chalky soils
- Ideal flowering shrub for problem clay soils
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