Potentilla fruticosa 'Elizabeth' | Buttercup shrub - 12lt

Potentilla fruticosa 'Elizabeth' is a small, compact, rounded, deciduous shrub of spreading habit, with pinnate green leaves, grey underneath, and masses of lovely, canary yellow, 5-petal flowers blooming from early summer to mid-autumn. Attractive to bees and butterflies. Potentilla fruticosa 'Elizabeth' will grow well in moist soils, loamy, chalky, sandy, even poor ones, but prefers average, moist, well-drained soils in full sun or partial shade. Very tough and resilient plant. Resistant to frost and wind. Once established, tolerant of drought. Adaptable to coastal conditions and urban pollution. Virtually pest-free and disease-free. Low maintenance plant, doesn’t require pruning. Shrubby cinquefoil 'Elizabeth' is a wonderful, long-blooming shrub suitable for cottage, coastal, wildlife, urban, rock and gravel gardens. Great as a specimen plant. Excellent for flower beds and borders, banks and slopes or informal flowering hedges and screens. Good for growing in containers on patios and roof gardens.