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How to plant and care for Shrubby Potentilla
Potentilla fruticosa 'Goldfinger'
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
A tough little shrub covered in bright yellow buttercup flowers from May to October. Copes with poor soil, wind and dry spells.
When to plant and care for it
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Flowers
Prune
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Shrubby Potentilla: what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well for the first summer, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Any well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 90 cm
- Height
- 1 m
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- Little feeding needed
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 2–8
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 90 cm apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- MarchPrune
Trim the whole shrub by about a third, and cut a few old stems to the base every few years.
- JuneIn Flower
Yellow flowers for months.
