Potentilla - Dakota Sunspot®

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Potentilla - Dakota Sunspot®

Dakota Sunspot® Potentilla, Potentilla fruticosa 'Fargo', is an attractive shrub that has showy, deep golden 1" flowers produced abundantly all summer long. This low maintenance dwarf plant has bright green summer foliage and forms a compact rounded shape at maturity. This is a compact shrub that will mature at 2 ˝ to 3 feet tall with a spread of 2 to 3 feet. Dakota Sunspot is a deciduous shrub that does best in full sun and will flower all summer if trimmed in late June or July, along with fertilizer and water. You can plant it with the assurance that it will live. It requires little, if no care once established. It is compact and free flowering. It can be used as a foundation plant, in the perennial border, in mass planting, as a low hedge and even as a specimen. ... more info

 

Barberry-Red Leaf Japanese The Barberry bush or RedLeaf Japanese bush, Berberis thunbergii, is a deciduous shrub reaching up to 24" tall and about 30" wide. The branches are slender, spiny, and small, and the leaves are roundly oval in a deep red to purple color. The small, yellow flowers borne beneath leaves, from April to May, are not showy. Bright red berries can be found along stems from late fall through winter. Ironically, this is never really considered a feature of this plant. Barberry bushes are best located in full sun. This plant is tolerant of many types of soil, but will not do well in wet to very moist soils. As name Barberry implies, this makes an excellent hedge or filler shrub.

Potentilla - Dakota Sunspot®