Potentilla fruticosa Bella Apple - Shrubby cinquefoil

The  Bella Apple Shrubby Cinquefoil is a cinquefoil from the 'Bella' series, composed of naturally compact varieties that do not require pruning. It offers a flowering with fruity tones of apricot, pale pink, and yellow. This small rounded bush has a long summer flowering, enhanced by its dense foliage. Easy to grow, very hardy, and low maintenance, it can be planted in flower beds or in large pots on the terrace. It is a highly rewarding plant, and almost foolproof in well-drained soil.

Potentilla fruticosa is a woody shrub that belongs to the Rosaceae family, just like roses. The variety 'Hachapp' Bella Apple was obtained and selected in Germany in 2014 by Holger Hachmann. It is therefore a particularly hardy shrub. 'Bella Apple' has a rounded bushy habit and particularly dense vegetation. At maturity, the plant will measure approximately 60 cm in height and 70 cm in width. Its slender and branched, brown stems, peel with age, and bear deciduous foliage that disappears in winter. The small size of the leaves, divided into narrow leaflets, gives a beautiful lightness to the bright green silhouette of this plant. The delicate flowers, rather large for a shrubby cinquefoil, are shaped like 4 cm wide cups, with five petals of changing colours. The centre of the flower is occupied by golden stamens. The abundant flowering, starting in June and lasting until the end of summer, is usually more intense at the beginning of the period and then loses some of its vigour during the season, depending on the dampness of the soil.

In full sun, cinquefoils will produce flowers with more vibrant colours, while in partial shade, the colour will be slightly less intense. Carefree plants, generous and beautifully coloured, cinquefoils are ideal for brightening up the garden or balcony, effortlessly and enduringly. With their Scottish rose-like appearance and their very modest requirements, they can be used in multiple ways and planted anywhere: in flower beds, rock gardens, borders, low hedges, containers... In most climates and in any well-drained soil. The 'Bella Apple' cinquefoil will be particularly stunning when combined with blue bushy salvias or red bushy salvias, yarrows, gauras, globe thistles, euphorbias, and low grasses. It pairs perfectly with lavenders, rockroses, and Helichrysum for a warm and fragrant atmosphere. It also blends well with dwarf or creeping conifers or ground cover and landscape roses. Cinquefoils create stunning large borders in front of a screen of evergreen shrubs.