A not too large bush with pretty flowers is found in nature very often, it is familiar to almost every person. In this article, we will focus on shrub cinquefoil, this is the name of this representative of the plant world.
Every corner of the garden can be decorated by planting suitable plants... When choosing, their decorativeness, stability and duration of flowering are taken into account. All these requirements are met by the care and cultivation of which will not cause much trouble. Having learned how to properly care for her, you can replenish your flower garden with this beauty.
Types of Potentilla
In nature, Potentilla can be found in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere: in the Far East, Siberia, China, Mongolia, Western Europe and the Altai mountains.
There are different types of Potentilla shrub. There are fifteen of them in the genus, all deciduous. This miracle of nature is counted by more than one dozen varieties that differ from each other in the color of leaves, flowers, plant height. In places with a temperate climate, varieties with yellow-orange flowers feel most comfortable and stable.
Each variety of Potentilla shrub has its own flowering color. But most often it is white, tones.
The most popular varieties of Potentilla shrub:
- Shrub cinquefoil "Abbotswood" is a bush up to one meter high with a dense pillow-shaped crown and light green leaves. White flowers are small brushes. Abbotswood is one of the most the best varieties, looks good in group plantings of rock gardens and on low-growing curbs.
- Shrub cinquefoil "Guildford Cream" is a one and a half meter high bush with a dense cushion-shaped crown and dark green leaves. Large flowers begin to bloom in early July.
- Red Ace cinquefoil is distinguished by creeping shoots. The height of the shrub is about 70 cm, the crown is 1.3 m wide, the leaves are dark green, the flowers are orange-red, beautiful.
- Shrub cinquefoil "Hoppy Orange" - plant height is half a meter, crown width - one meter, flowers are dark orange in color. This variety has established itself as a variety with high endurance and winter hardiness. It feels comfortable in summer cottages.
Botanical description
Shrub cinquefoil is a highly branched bush. The branches are covered with red-brown or brown-gray bark, which peels off easily.
Leaves with two to three pairs of oblong or oblong-ovate leaflets 5-25 mm long and 1-8 mm wide, which are usually hairy, rarely glabrous.
Flowers are formed on shoots that have grown in the current year. Inside there are about 25-30 stamens, which is why the middle is fluffy.
Blooming of one flower lasts from five hours to two days, depending on the ambient temperature and humidity. The shrub blooms from early May to late August. Plants are found with different colors of flowers, very reminiscent of the spring blossom of apple or rose hips. Begin to bear fruit in October. Cinquefoil shrub in the fall looks colorful and elegant, covered with yellow foliage.
Other names: shrub kuril tea, shrub cinquefoil, cinquefoil.
care and cultivation
Cinquefoil is unpretentious in relation to the soil, but it is better to plant it in well-lit places in a loose and nutritious substrate. The root collar should be at ground level when planting. The development of the shrub is badly affected by soil disease.
Planting Potentilla shrub is a simple matter. You just need to follow some rules after planting the plant. Mandatory watering in dry summer and timely fertilizing with mineral and organic fertilizers.
Pruning Potentilla
You can cause abundant flowering by timely pruning, removing unusable dried branches or shoots. Pruning Potentilla shrub is carried out every two years. Shoots should be left 10 cm above the ground.
The bush can be made spherical or in the form of a pyramid, its decorative effect will greatly increase from this.
To cut is to do a "surgical operation." Therefore, it should be done at a time when healing will be better. In this case, in the spring. Pruning helps rejuvenate the bush.
Pests and diseases
Like all living things, Potentilla is susceptible to disease. One of them is rust. There is no great damage from it, but it strongly affects decorativeness. Avoid planting near a pine tree.
It is easy to get rid of such a disease, it is enough to spray with fungicides, a solution of manganese, boron. There are no pests.
Shrub cinquefoil: reproduction
One of the propagation methods is cuttings. Cuttings fifteen centimeters long are best cut at the end of June, at that time the branches will already gain strength for independent development. On the underside, you need to remove the leaves and place the cooked stalk for twelve hours in a growth stimulator.
Plant ready-made cuttings in a prepared greenhouse, covering it with glass or film. Remove all formed buds in order to successfully grow the root system.
After about a month, 90% of the cuttings will have roots and take root safely. You can leave them in the greenhouse until next spring. Cuttings seedlings root easily, planted under a jar.
You can propagate cinquefoil shrub layering, pressing it to the ground, and then digging it in. It will be possible to separate the cuttings from the bush only next spring. This method is considered the simplest and easiest.
A good breeding option is dividing a four-year-old bush. In spring, in warm weather, separate the sprout with growth buds and immediately put in place, then water abundantly.
V natural conditions Shrub cinquefoil reproduces by self-seeding. Sometimes gardeners collect seeds on their own, then sow seeds, but the method is so ineffective. When using it, the maternal qualities of the plant are almost not transferred.
Landscape design
Due to its unpretentious cultivation and a long flowering period, cinquefoil shrub looks good in low-growing hedges and is an adornment for garden compositions. Having planted a plant, you can form a low-growing border.
A bush planted on a small lawn or lawn will delight you with abundant flowering for a long time. The plant can be used to create group and single plantings.
Choosing the right varieties, you can make a mini-garden of plants, which will include cinquefoil shrub, the care and cultivation of which is within the power of even a novice gardener.
Beneficial features
There are about 3000 types of Kuril shrub tea. The plant was given a name, which in Latin means strong, mighty for its useful healing properties... At one time, Ilya Muromets breathed his aromas, from which he became stronger and more powerful. In ancient times, healers called Potentilla a mighty man.
The plant (cinquefoil shrub) can be used in the treatment of urinary incontinence in children, diabetes mellitus, pyelonephritis, as well as for washing purulent wounds and treating burns, boils.
Among the people, infusion flowering branches used for pain and cramps in the stomach and intestines, with dyspepsia, bloody diarrhea and as a hemostatic agent. Tibetans drink this remedy for pneumonia as an expectorant.
The roots of the bush are also endowed with healing properties; they are used for diarrhea. The infusion of the whole plant is used to treat stomatitis, purulent tonsillitis and other diseases of the mouth.
July is the most suitable month for the procurement of medicinal raw materials. During this period, Potentilla will already fully bloom, and during flowering it has the ability to produce all the nutrients.
A wonderful plant is shrub cinquefoil. Care and cultivation of this useful bush makes it possible to get pleasure and pleasure from the work done, and at the same time brings tremendous benefits.
Cinquefoil straight, galangal- Potentilla erecta (L.) Raeusch.Inhabits the tundra and forest zones and the mountain-forest belt of Europe and Western Siberia, the Caucasus, Asia Minor. Common on the edges of forests, lawns, along the banks of rivers, streams, along the edges of swamps. Occasionally enters the tundra and mountain tundra belt.
Perennial with strongly and unevenly thickened tuberous, woody rhizome. Stem up to 20 cm high, erect or ascending, thin, leafy, branched in the upper part. Basal leaves are trifoliate, on long petioles, dying off by the time of flowering. Stem leaves are usually sessile, always trifoliate, with large leaf-like, deeply cut stipules. The flowers are regular, solitary, on long and thin pedicels, about 1 cm in diameter with a subduction and a double four-membered perianth. The calyx is pubescent, the petals are somewhat longer than the sepals, notched, yellow. Stamens 15-20, with long filaments and small rounded anthers. Numerous pistils; hairy receptacle. Fruits are ovoid, wrinkled nuts. Blooms in June - August.
The ecological range of the plant is wide. It is a hygromesophyte that can grow in conditions of both moderate and excessive moisture, in open places and with significant shade. Undemanding to soils, often found on rather poor acidic soils. Resistant to frost.
Erect cinquefoil in nature reproduces mainly by seeds, vegetative reproduction is rarely observed. Seed production is not very high: from six to nine fruitlets are formed in one flower. Flowering is extended from May to autumn. Flowers rich in nectar are actively visited by various insects. The ripening time of the fruits is also extended. Ripe fruits are scattered by animals, and can also be carried by water and wind. Seeds usually germinate the next year, and the germination is uncooked, stretched for 4-6 months, aboveground. The first shoots appear in May - June, the second "peak" of seed germination - in late September - early October. By the end of the first year of life, the seedlings form 4 whole rounded leaves, collected in a rosette, by the fall of the first year, a rhizome begins to form. Leaves remain intact, as a rule, for 5 years, at the 6th year, ternary leaves appear. Potentilla blooms usually in the 7th year, but sometimes earlier. In the nursery, flowering is observed even by the end of the first year.
These are summer-winter-green plants: rosette (wintering) leaves can live for 10-11 months. Under conditions of sufficient illumination, the number of rosette leaves increases and, in addition to the autumn-winter generation of leaves, spring and summer generations are also formed. The emergence of generative shoots continues throughout the growing season, the formation of flower rudiments in the axillary buds of rosette leaves occurs throughout the year, slowing down in winter. The generative organs of spring shoots have been laid in the buds since the fall of the previous year. The flowering of one flower lasts 1-2 days, 14-20 days after flowering, the seeds are already fully formed, but still green, after 2 days they turn yellow and crumble in a day.
There are indications of the presence of endotrophic mycorrhiza in Potentilla. Livestock grazing in places of its growth has no significant effect on the plant. The above-ground organs contain many (up to 11.5%) tannins, vitamin C (up to 180%), protein, fats, etc. The rhizomes are especially rich in tannins.
Photo of Kovina Alevtina
Cinquefoil (Latin Potentilla) is an unpretentious herb from the Pink family. In nature, there are more than 500 types of Potentilla. There are both undersized shrubs, tall, and creeping specimens, which are used by summer residents and flower growers to decorate flower beds, borders, rockeries and alpine hills. The most popular among summer residents are perennial plant species that do not require special care and at the same time bloom for a long time and beautifully.
The color of the flowers of the plant is so diverse that you can get confused when choosing the color scheme of the summer cottage. Potentilla blooms yellow, red, snow-white, orange, cream, pink delicate flowers... The flowering time of the plant is from May to September. The most widespread culture is in the Urals, the Caucasus, Western Siberia, where the shrub cinquefoil is often called "Kuril tea" or "five-leafed leaf". For the first time, Potentilla was found on Kuril Islands from where it has already spread throughout Russia and to other countries. Since ancient times, Potentilla leaves, rich in vitamin C, essential oils and tannin, have been used as a healing tea that heals colds and quickly puts you on your feet. Today it is beautiful ornamental plant, loved by landscape designers and flower growers for its unpretentiousness, simplicity and bright long flowering throughout the summer season.
Cinquefoil, description and types of plants
Cinquefoil is a plant represented by numerous types of annual, biennial, perennial crops, among which there are both shrub and herbaceous species.
Shrub cinquefoil. Perennial shrub with a dense spherical crown. The height of the shrub reaches up to 1.5 meters. This is the most common type of the genus, which is popularly called "Kuril tea" or "five-leafed leaf". In nature, compact, highly branched bushes can often be found on rocky slopes, talus, in cracks in rocks on pebbles, where they form thickets. The leaves of Potentilla shrub are slightly pubescent, dissected into 5 lobes, the flowers are rather large, collected in inflorescences. There are many stamens in the center of the flower, which makes its middle look fluffy.
The beginning of flowering of shrub Potentilla in June, lasts until October. There are shrubs with different colors of flowers, but most often the flowering of Potentilla shrub resembles the flowering of an apple or rose hip. After flowering, an achene is formed - a box in the form of a brown button, which gives an additional decorative effect to the culture.
Among the most popular varieties are:
- Abbotswood is a bush, up to 1 meter high, with a dense pillow-like crown. The leaves are light green, white flowers are collected in small clusters. The shrub looks great in rock gardens, in group plantings with other plants, and is used to decorate borders.
- Guildford Cream is a tall bush, up to 1.5 in height. The crown is dense, cushion-shaped, the leaves have a dark green tint. The flowers are large, cream or white.
- Red Ace - Shrub up to 70 cm high, wide crown - up to 1.3 meters wide. A feature of the variety is creeping shoots. The leaves are dark green, blooms with bright flowers in orange-red tones.
- Pink Queen is a flowering shrub up to 80 cm high, blooms with delicate pink flowers, flowering time from June to September.
- Hoppy Orange is a low bush up to 0.5 meters in height with a wide 1-meter crown. One of the most hardy and winter-hardy varieties.
Apennine cinquefoil. A perennial plant native to the mountainous part of Europe, where it grows at an altitude of over 1,500 meters. Plant height from 5 to 15 cm, leaves are trifoliate, pubescent, with a silvery tinge. It blooms with pink or white flowers, up to 15 mm in diameter, flowering time - late summer. Used to decorate rock gardens, stone crevices in landscape design.
White bloodroot... A perennial plant native to central Europe and Russia. Height from 8 to 25 cm. Stems and leaves are covered with silky, adpressed hairs. It has complex basal leaves, palmate-lobed with dark brown stipules. It blooms with small white flowers on long pedicels, up to 3 cm in diameter, from May to August. An unpretentious culture, however, it does not tolerate scorching sunlight and an excess of moisture in the soil.
Goose cinquefoil, or goose foot
... Ground cover, unpretentious culture, widespread in Russia. Leaves are pinnate, large-toothed, blooms with small yellow single flowers, up to 2 cm in diameter. Peduncles are leafless. The plant is not demanding, it grows everywhere, along roads, highways - where other plants will not survive. 
Nepalese cinquefoil... Perennial herbaceous species, bush height up to half a meter. Nepal and the Western Himalayas are considered his homeland. Stems - straight, branched, purple-tinged. This variety has rather large leaves, palmate, up to 30 cm in length, dark green in color. The flowers are bright, large, red, pink, with dark pink veins, gathered in panicles. The beginning of flowering is July, duration is 55 days. 
Among the Nepalese Potentilla there are attractive hybrid varieties, the most common are:
- Miss Wilmott - lush cherry pink flowers with a dark eye.
- Roxana - salmon-orange flowers with thin dark veins.
Erect cinquefoil (straight, or galangal)... Perennial with a thickened woody rhizome, in wildlife grows in forests, tundra, on the banks of rivers, lakes, swamps. The stem of the plant is erect, up to 20 cm high, the upper part of the bush is without foliage. Single flowers, correct shape, up to 1 cm in diameter, grow on long thin pedicels. The flowering period is June - August.
Cinquefoil - landing
The Potentilla plant is undemanding to growing conditions, therefore, the cultivation of Potentilla on summer cottage- pure pleasure. The only exception is white cinquefoil, which grows exclusively in the shade and does not tolerate excessive moisture. All other numerous species prefer bright, shaded areas of the garden. Excessive sunlight is bad for the appearance of flowers. Delicate petals quickly fade under the scorching sun and lose their attractiveness. Lack of light can stop flowering or lead to stunted growth of the plant.
The choice of soil for planting Potentilla
The ideal soil for Potentilla is loamy soils, although it can grow on any type of soil in which additional fertilizing is necessary. Varieties with pink flowers are especially demanding on the composition of the soil. 
Planting Potentilla seedlings in the ground
Shrub cinquefoil is the most popular type of plant that is used by summer residents to decorate the garden and summer cottages. It is planted in spring or autumn.
- When planting seedlings, it should be borne in mind that this variety of Potentilla has a superficial root system, so the planting pits should be up to 0.5 - 0.6 meters deep. The distance between plantings is from 30 to 80 cm.
- A drainage layer of pebbles, rubble, broken brick, and on top - a layer of leafy earth, mixed with humus and river sand in a ratio of 2: 2: 1. Add about 100 grams of mineral fertilizers or ash to the soil mixture.
- The seedling is placed in a planting pit. The main condition for planting a Potentilla seedling is a neat location in the planting pit of the root collar of the plant. It should be above ground level.
- Then the seedling is watered abundantly, the soil around the bush is mulched: sawdust, dry bark, straw. Within a month after planting, it is necessary to maintain the moisture content of the soil and prevent it from drying out.
Cinquefoil - care
It is easy to take care of Potentilla and even beginner growers can do it. It is enough to provide the perennial with regular and moderate watering, fertilization, timely pruning and weeding from weeds under the bushes.
Watering Potentilla
Cinquefoil blooms profusely and grows actively in well-moistened soil, although it is considered a drought-resistant unpretentious crop. In a rainy summer, the plant may not need additional watering. And in a hot summer, he needs to ensure watering 2-3 times a week, preventing the soil from drying out. Can't use cold ice water in order not to harm the root system, it is better to water the bushes with warm, settled water. After watering, it is recommended to shallowly loosen the soil. In the evening, Potentilla can be sprayed. Young seedlings need special watering, they are often watered, spending up to 10 liters warm water under one bush.
Feeding Potentilla
A flowering perennial responds well to top dressing. When planting a seedling, any mineral fertilizer or ash is added, and next spring the plant can be fed with the following fertilizers:
- During the period of active growth, in the spring, it is necessary to add 30-40 grams of potassium sulfate and phosphate, diluted in 10 liters of water, per plant to the soil.
- During the budding period, the soil is fertilized with phosphorus-potassium complex fertilizers, according to the instructions.
Pruning Potentilla
To maintain an attractive appearance of shrub Potentilla and its decorative effect, it is necessary to regularly prune the crown of the plant. Pruning is carried out in early spring, before the buds open or in autumn, by shortening the shoots by a third, giving the crown the necessary shape, as well as removing dry, broken, growing inward branches. Most often, the shrub is shaped like a ball or pillow. After rejuvenation, active growth of shoots begins, stimulation occurs abundant flowering... In addition to pruning, the soil under the plant must be periodically loosened, especially after watering, and weeds must be removed. 
Cinquefoil after flowering
In the fall, after flowering, when the plant loses its decorative effect, annual types of Potentilla are removed, and the area where it grew is dug up, adding fertilizers to the soil. After the completion of the flowering of shrub Potentilla, the shoots are shortened by a third and the soil is watered with Bordeaux liquid as a preventive measure.
Cinquefoil in winter
Perennial herbaceous and shrub species of Potentilla do not need winter shelter, since the plant is hardy to winter frosts. Only cuttings and young seedlings that are planted in the fall need to be sheltered for the winter. 
Cinquefoil - reproduction
Like all garden plants, Potentilla reproduces by seeds or vegetatively.
Propagation of Potentilla by seeds
The seed method of planting Potentilla is used less often than the vegetative one and can only be done by experienced flower growers who prefer to sow seeds directly into the ground. However, for good germination, it is recommended to sow seeds indoors using containers. Sowing seeds in containers is carried out in the last decade of February. For planting, a wide box with drainage holes is prepared, which is filled with nutritious soil. You can use peat and humus, taken in the same proportion. The seeds are planted in moist soil, sprinkled with a small layer of earth, and covered with transparent glass or film. The optimum temperature for seedling germination is - + 16-18 ° C. It is worth noting that some varieties of Potentilla reproduce by self-seeding.
Propagation of Potentilla by cuttings
Cuttings are made in July or August. For propagation by cuttings, last year's shoots are chosen, from which leaves and flowers are removed, the length of the cutting is from 8 to 10 cm. You can root the cutting in wet perlite or in open ground, choosing for it a shaded and draft-free place in the garden. Be sure to cover the handle with a jar or plastic bottle, creating greenhouse conditions for him, not forgetting that the cutting needs to be sprayed and ventilated several times a day. When buds appear on the cutting, they should be removed so that they do not weaken the rooting cutting. In winter, young plants need shelter.
Reproduction of Potentilla by layering
Reproduction by layering is the most simple method reproduction of Potentilla. In the spring, select a low-growing shoot of the plant, make an incision along its outer side and place it in a small, pre-dug groove. The cut should be at the bottom of the groove, attach metal bracket shoot to the ground and sprinkle with soil. By the fall, the cuttings form a strong root system and it can be separated from the mother bush by transplanting it to a permanent place.
Reproduction of Potentilla by dividing the bush
Adult shrubs are propagated by dividing, the age of the mother bush must reach 4 years. The bush is dug up, its rhizome is washed warm water and cut the root into pieces using a sharp knife. Each part of the cut should have 2-3 buds. The roots of the cut are processed in a growth stimulator and transplanted into the ground, without burying the buds in the ground. The method of reproduction by dividing the mother bush is used in the spring, in April or in September.
Diseases and pests of Potentilla
When planting shrub cinquefoil in the country or in the garden, you can not be afraid for the plant, because the perennial is practically not susceptible to diseases and is not affected by pests, like other garden crops. But there is one disease that plagues perennial plant species - rust. The disease is manifested by the appearance of yellow-brown spots on the green leaves of Potentilla. If the plant is left untreated, its leaves dry out and fall off. To treat the plant from rust, preparations containing sulfur and boron, Bordeaux liquid are used, and spraying with a solution of potassium permanganate also helps. Experienced growers have noticed that rust appears on the plant if the bushes are planted next to coniferous crops. To avoid this disease, you should not plant Potentilla next to conifers.
Among the pests of Potentilla, an attack of scoops is sometimes observed, insecticides are effective in the fight against them: Fufanon, Fitoverm.
Cinquefoil: useful properties
As well as decorative properties plants, cinquefoil is a medicinal plant. V folk medicine widely used beneficial features Shrub Potentilla, which is popularly called "Kuril tea". Its leaves contain a large number of vitamin C, A, essential oils. Infusion from the shoots of the plant is used to treat pyelonephritis, enuresis in children, for washing pustules, treating burns and boils. Used for stomach pains, diarrhea. 
Cinquefoil in landscape design
Due to the long and abundant flowering, as well as the simplicity of cultivation, the cinquefoil has won the hearts of many flower growers and landscape designers who decorate their summer cottages and flower beds with a plant. Shrub cinquefoil is a favorite of summer residents; it looks great in garden compositions as a flowering hedge. Shrubs, reaching heights of up to 1.5 meters, are used for landscaping the garden, their crown is given the shape of a ball or pillow. The bush looks luxurious in a single planting in the center of the lawn. Low-growing varieties - decoration of borders. The endurance and unpretentiousness of Potentilla is used to create a stone garden, rockeries, alpine slides. Cinquefoil harmoniously fits into any group planting. A bush with yellow flowers in the vicinity of barberry, Boomald's spirea, junipers, lavender looks spectacular. Varieties with bright pink, orange flowers, such as "Lovely Pink", "Red Ice" will decorate any corner of the garden with their flowering throughout the summer period.
Cinquefoil - beautiful plant, which does not require increased attention to itself, but will delight its owner with a long and long flowering throughout the summer. If you decide to plant shrub cinquefoil in your summer cottage, allocate a suitable permanent place for it, where it will grow up to 20-30 years, delighting and delighting in beauty for many years.
Cinquefoil: photo
How to turn plant cultivation into personal plot for beauty and comfort as a reason for constant joy for success? It's simple enough - you need to choose the right crops. Shrub cinquefoil is unpretentious and does not require care to be carried out with special care. This shrub has been popular among gardeners of past centuries. Therefore, in our time, shrub cinquefoil is quite relevant and widespread - its varieties have all consumer qualities. Correct fit and reproduction allows you to quickly breed it in your personal plot. This plant is a low (one and a half meter tall) branching shrubs with a dense, dense crown. The decorativeness and attractiveness of flowers provided them with the attention and demand of numerous professional gardeners and ordinary amateur flower growers. Such plants are preferred to be planted in separate units at a distance from each other, and to create a bright foreground of them during group plantings. Look at the photo of shrub Potentilla - this is an amazing powerful plant for landscape design:
Features and an accurate description of Potentilla shrub (with photo)
The features of the plant are insignificant and they are taken into account by the exact description of shrub Potentilla, presented below. This type of ornamental plantings has fibrous rhizomes. The feathery, slightly pubescent leaves are most often five-toed in nature, due to which the cinquefoil is also called the five-leafed leaf. In many European countries, the plant is known under the name Dazifora, which translates as "bearing thick hairs." The crown of the bushes has a hemispherical shape. The external structure of flowers is of particular importance in describing Potentilla shrub. Look at the photo of the varieties and varietal types:
Abundant, colorful flowering is observed from June to October, so this duration can be called one of the clear advantages of the plant. Numerous flowers are quite large in size - the diameter can reach 3.5 centimeters, they are usually located individually or in bright inflorescences. Each flower contains up to thirty thousand small stamens, thanks to which the centers become fluffy and spectacular. Ripening fruits give the plant even greater decorative effect. Covering the dense crown of the bushes with peculiar "buttons", the prefabricated achenes ripen to dark Brown color and also contain numerous fine hairs. 
By color variety the plant is subdivided into three main groups - white, yellow and pink cinquefoil. However, depending on the variety, colors and shades may vary. Most often, in public flower beds or in city gardens, you can see the yellow shrub cinquefoil, which looks decent and successfully sets off other types of ornamental plants. In addition to their colorfulness, shrubs have whole line useful and practical qualities that are used in traditional medicine and pharmacology. The flowers, leaves, shoots of the plant contain a large amount of resins, alkaloids, vitamins C, R. Tea is quite popular, which is brewed from this variety of herbs - the drink has choleretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial properties. With the help of decoctions, burns, boils, and various wounds are healed. 
Planting and proper cultivation of Potentilla shrub
For proper growth and abundant flowering of the plant, it is necessary to provide quality care. The shrub prefers well-lit, but at the same time slightly shaded places - being a light-loving and thermophilic representative of the flora, they may not withstand direct ultraviolet rays. In this case, their color becomes dull and expressionless. Shrub Potentilla is planted in early spring or autumn, when there is a sufficient amount of moisture in the soil. Confident and correct cultivation Shrub Potentilla implies a number of nuances that you need to know:
When planting Potentilla shrub, you need to carefully and carefully choose a place. Cultivars are usually planted in leeward, shaded areas on the southern sides. The best option when the flowers are actively illuminated by the sun in the morning, and in the afternoon they are in the shade. The most correct would be to plant ornamental pets in light drained soils with an alkaline or slightly acidic reaction. Group planting implies a distance of at least 60 cm between the bushes. Landing in any kind of wetland is undesirable. 
Types of reproduction of Potentilla shrub - cuttings and other methods
This type of plant has the ability to multiply with seeds, green or lignified cuttings, as well as special cuttings. Another breeding method is dividing the bush. The most popular methods are the propagation of cinquefoil shrub cuttings and seeds. Types of bush division are rarely used, usually gardeners use other methods. When planting shrubs for the first time, many people prefer to use seeds. These flowers have rather small seeds; it is customary to sow them at the end of autumn. If sowing is done in early spring, then the seeds are stratified in advance. In this case, it is not necessary to bury the seeds - they spill out onto the ground and are slightly pressed down. This method of planting a plant has a high germination rate. The next year, the sprouted young shoots are transplanted to a permanent place (before diving). Bushes from seeds give high-quality color already in the second year after planting the seeds. Materials for grafting are recommended to be harvested in June. For this, dense, strong shoots are selected, which must be cut into about 20 cm long. Flowers and Bottom part leaves are removed. In order for the cuttings to take root faster, they can be kept in a heteroauxin solution (treatment with Kornevin's solution) for 12 hours before planting. Root cuttings with roots under glass or in greenhouse conditions. They need to be sprayed frequently and regularly to increase humidity. When the first buds appear, they should be cut off immediately, otherwise the blooming flowers will greatly weaken the plant. According to numerous photos of Shrub Potentilla, it is possible to analyze how correctly it was planted and whether it is being looked after accordingly. Already from the age of 4, the bushes can be divided by seating parts in autumn and spring. The selected shoots with growth buds are separated from the mother bush and planted in a permanent place. You need to water constantly.
The need and benefits of pruning Potentilla shrub
The necessity and benefits of constant control over the number and length of young growth is constantly discussed by designers and gardeners. If the plants are not trimmed, they quickly overgrow and look unattractive. In addition, exposure of the lower part of the bushes is possible. Therefore, in early spring or late autumn, at the end of flowering, cinquefoil shrubs are pruned, in which the inside of the bushes or dried branches are carefully removed. Every 3-5 years, the plants rejuvenate - one third of all shoots are cut to the ground level. Also relevant is decorative trim, with the help of which the shrubs are given any desired shape.Variety of varieties of Potentilla shrub (with photo)
There are more than 500 varieties of Potentilla varieties, which, in general, are divided into subspecies with white flowers, yellow flowers, pink and red. Depending on the variety, it can be used in various decorative variations. The most relevant are the following varieties of Potentilla shrub:- Tall and bright cinquefoil shrub Abbotswood. The variety is highly branching, has snow-white flowers. Flowering is observed from early June to October.
- Elizabeth. Original bushes with a voluminous crown - its diameter can sometimes reach a mark of one meter. The leaves are velvety, and the flowers are large, light yellow.
- Nepalese cinquefoil. It blooms for 55 days with red and dark pink flowers.
- Tall (up to one and a half meters) shrub Goldfinger. Shrubs with a lush, dense crown of bright, emerald green leaves. They have large bright yellow flowers, the diameter of which reaches 4 cm.
The Rosaceae family gave the world one amazing plant - cinquefoil.
You can meet her everywhere in our country (Siberia, the Urals, the Caucasus). This grows everywhere magic herb with a straight, slightly leafy stem, 25-50 cm high.
Its unusually delicate flowers, comfortably sitting on long pedicels, can be admired from spring to autumn.
- This herb is also known under other names: Dubrovka, elm grass, ovyaznik, whisper, uzik, cat's paws, goose feet, hairball, stoolovnik, worm. The Latin name for Potentilla is "Potentilla", which means "power, strength".
It grows everywhere: in meadows, pastures, meadows, clearings, near rivers, lakes, streams and ponds. In the middle of dry lawns and swampy places... Even on alpine rocky cliffs.
The amazing power of a flower
Bloodroot- one of the most revered plants in the history of our Slavic ancestors.
This modest flower, very pleasant, velvety to the touch, is endowed with the mystical power of life. He has become the hero of numerous legends and myths more than once.
“In ancient times, the hero Ilya Muromets lived in the world, he defended the Russian land from adversity. Before his decisive battle with the villain Nightingale the robber, Ilya turned to this powerful herb for help. unprecedented power and helped to rid Russia of evil spirits. "
No wonder our ancestors called this humble herb "mighty". She also helped another glorious hero.
The epic Ruslan, killed in an unequal battle, was able to revive with the help of living water from a source, which was fed by the growing nearby Dubrovka.
Let's get to know better
The genus of Potentilla is large enough. To date, more than 300 of its species are known, distributed almost throughout the world.
The most famous:
♦Kuril tea(or five-leafed). Nice, low shrub (plant height reaches up to a meter in height) has soft, fleecy leaves.
The plant blooms with single flowers of white or yellow color. The five-leafed fruits look like small buttons, brown in color, they are all covered with fine hairs.
♦ Dusheney Indian(or false strawberry). Interesting view stoolovnik, which can easily be confused with strawberries.
An exotic plant after flowering acquires bright red berries.
Perennial creeping plants very quickly and aggressively capture the territory and cover the earth with an amazingly beautiful living carpet.
Soon berries, similar to strawberries, are replaced by inedible bright ruby fruits.
♦ Nepalese. Probably the most beautiful among her sisters, the Nepalese Potentilla is simply created for cultural breeding. Her bright flowers will be a great decoration for flower beds in your personal plot.
She looks equally good both as a charming loner and in a group of bright fellow tribesmen. Especially if in one place you plant a stool with a different color of flowers.
♦ Groundblood(or sandy). This perennial species Dubrovka is rich in flowering. Its sprawling shrub is ideal for a backyard.
It is especially good in spring, when the shrub cinquefoil is entirely covered with golden sparks of beautiful flowers.
♦ Stemless. The homeland of this plant: the harsh lands of Mongolia, China and Siberia.
Stoolovnik stemless prefers alpine meadows located at an altitude of 500-3000 m. Favorite habitats are gravelly, rocky slopes of mountains and the edges of pine forests.
♦ Cinquefoil Krantz. A perennial plant with a highly developed root system prefers to settle in the alpine and arctic tundra, taking a liking to the mountain slopes and banks of northern streams.
An amazing creature has a stem bent into an arc about 25 cm high.Its flowers are pink, or yellow color give a unique charm to the entire plant.
♦ Goose(or gourd). Cinquefoil of this species is distributed throughout the European territory of Russia.
It has a creeping, slightly curved stem, feathery leaves and very fragrant, bright yellow flowers.
You can meet her near water bodies, near expensive in meadows and pastures.
♦ Large-flowered. One of their spectacular plants, which stands out vividly for its golden, large flowers.
Basically, large-flowered oak tree grows in Japan, the Kuriles and Sakhalin. She loves to settle on gravelly talus rocks, stony slopes of the seaside.
It is especially beautiful in spring, when abundant fragrant flowers appear with rich green leaves.
♦ Kalgan(or upright). Discover this beautiful perennial it is possible in thinned coniferous forests, near swamps, water bodies, in pastures and meadows.
Galangal is distinguished by a very thick rhizome and an amazing, spicy aroma of its bright yellow flowers, reminiscent of the smell of a rose.
Cinquefoil, its healing abilities
Cinquefoil is not only an externally attractive, fragrant flower.
Among its many types, there are especially useful ones, medicinal plants with unique and invaluable properties.
Some of the most useful creatures- this is Kuril tea and galangal.
Kuril tea
Particular attention should be focused on the medicinal properties of this plant for people suffering from hypertension.
Regular use amazing drink from the cinquefoil helps not only to normalize blood pressure, but also to successfully rejuvenate the body and strengthen it.
- Inhabitants Of the Far East and Siberia, Kuril tea is actively used instead of the usual black tea. And in Belarus they even produce the healing drink "Kuriles" based on Potentilla.
The quinfoil is simply a Klondike of valuable elements (carotene, vitamin C, tannins, mineral salts, essential oils, coumarins).
It is advised to take a healing drink for problems with the gastrointestinal tract, diseases of the lungs, liver, heart failure and seasonal colds.
Traditional medicine advises to use a drink from this Potentilla to dissolve stones in the bladder and kidneys.
It is also able to help with anemia and skin diseases, during painful periods and vaginal untimely bleeding.
How to prepare a life-giving drink. Pour boiling water over the dry herbal substrate (2 tbsp. L.), The mixture should be boiled a little (5-7 minutes), cooled and filtered through several layers of gauze.
To save more valuable substances, Kuril tea can be prepared in a water bath (for a glass of boiling water 1 tbsp. L. Substrate).
- Healing tea should be taken 3-4 times daily for ½ cup. The course of admission is 10-15 days.
Be aware that cinquefoil, whose properties are intended to help people, can cause some irritation of the intestinal and stomach mucous membranes.
The life-giving broth can also be applied externally, in the form of lotions, or a poultice (for skin problems and leucorrhoea).
Kulgan
"The Mighty Man", as he was called in Russia - unique plant full of healing energies.
The medicinal properties of this cinquefoil are considered the most powerful among other medicinal plants.
- Anti-inflammatory.
- Hemostatic.
- Wound healing.
- Pain relievers.
- Expectorants.
- Bactericidal.
- Choleretic.
- Astringents.
These are just a few of the useful traits that galangal can be proud of. It is included in the composition of the most effective healing preparations (creams, gels, ointments).
An amazing plant is able to smooth out scars, heal bronchitis, provides powerful help in rheumatism, liver disease, jaundice.
Kalgan or Potentilla is used in folk medicine in different ways:
- Tincture. Pour the rhizome (30-50 g) with alcohol (0.5-0.7 l). Insist for 14 days and take 20-25 g before meals.
- Broth. Grind the dry root and brew (1-2 tablespoons of root powder per liter of water). Insist for about 2 hours and take 4 times daily in a tablespoon.
Cinquefoil, useful properties in cooking. Galangal root is used as a noble spice in the preparation of numerous dishes.
It is an irreplaceable additive for dishes from meat and poultry. A spicy spice is used in the manufacture of confectionery and various drinks.
There are a large number of recipes that have come down to us since the time of ancient Russia for the preparation of gingerbread, liqueurs, mash, tinctures, sbitney, where dry galangal root is used.
Cinquefoil and her life at their summer cottage
Cultivation of Potentilla is a real pleasure for the owner. The plant does not require particularly careful care.
But you still need to know some of the tricks and tendencies of this amazing herb.
♦ Choosing a place. The plant does not like shade - give it warm places. The most ideal is when her bush is illuminated by the sun in the morning, and by noon, the stoolhead hides in partial shade. Make sure that the place is not too swampy and sheltered from the winds.
- If you grow an oak forest without hiding from the sun, its flowers will turn pale and become ugly. And if there is not enough sunlight for it, the plant will slow down its growth and will not want to bloom.
The beauty will like the land as fertile and loose (the best is loamy soil mixed with sand and lime).
♦ Landing. The ideal time for the appearance of Potentilla in the garden is early spring.
The seeds of the plant are very small, so they are not buried in the ground, but scattered over the surface, slightly pressing with your hand.
Slightly grown seedlings, a month old, are transplanted to a distribution ridge (the weakest shoots are removed).
Older seedlings (from 2 years of age) are placed in permanent residence:
- Dig holes to a depth of 50 cm with a distance of 60 cm from each other.
- Drainage is laid at the bottom of the dug hole. Lime gravel is better for drainage (the plant is very fond of calcium).
- On top of the drainage layer, earth is laid, mixed with coarse sand and humus. Ash or lime (100 g) can be added to them.
- The seedling is carefully placed in the hole, covered with soil mixed with mineral additives.
- Immediately after the planting of Potentilla is over, the young plant is watered abundantly, and the ground near the seedling is strewn with sawdust or needles.
The seeds will germinate at a temperature of + 18 ° -22 ° C.
The stoolhead will begin to bloom from the second or third year of life. If you are going to grow Dubrovka with seedlings from a nursery, they should first be placed in a mixture of humus and water for 10-12 hours.
Beauty care
Cinquefoil care and cultivation. After planting, caring for the plant is not particularly difficult.
♦ Watering. In order for Dubrovka to grow healthy and strong, it cannot be kept in dry soil. At first, young seedlings are watered weekly ½ bucket for 2-3 weeks. In dry times, increase the water flow to a bucket.
- It is forbidden! Water the cinquefoil cold water, use only warm watering for it. The best time to water is in the evening, after sunset.
To keep the soil moist longer, mulch the soil after each watering. Mulch will help protect the plant from weed attack, which must be removed regularly.
Before watering, loosen the soil (the root system of the stalkhead is shallow, so loosening is carried out superficially).
♦ Top dressing. In the spring, under each bush of a plant, potassium sulfate and phosphate fertilizer (25-30 g each) at the rate of a bucket for each shrub.
Dubrovka needs to be fed with such a mixture both before and after flowering. Mineral fertilizers can be alternated with natural ( wood ash, slurry and humus in equal parts).
♦ Cropping. Like any lady, Potentilla loves to do her hair.
The main purpose of pruning Dubrovka is to stimulate its more exuberant flowering.
- Spring(April May). All new growths are cut off by 1/3 (a little more can be done to give the plant a more beautiful shape).
- Autumn(end of August-September). All old and too elongated shoots are removed.
- Rejuvenating(every 3-4 years). The beauty has bushes that tend to fall apart. To prolong the attractive life of the plant, the blooming inflorescences are cut off and all the branches growing in the center of the bush are removed and dried shoots. As a result of such an operation, the bush is reduced by half (consider this when planting a beautiful flower in the front garden).
It is also possible to prune the headhead to give the bush a more beautiful and attractive shape (ball, oval, pillow).
Reproduction
An amazing plant can be propagated in many ways: by seeds, dividing the bush (April-May or August-September), cuttings and layering (July-August).
♦ Seeds. Potentilla seeds are harvested at the end of the summer season, or in the middle of autumn (this depends on the weather conditions in the region).
The seeds are cleaned, dried and stored. It is better to store them in paper bags.
The next year, the seeds can already be sown.
♦ By division. Stoolovnik can be divided every 3-4 years. Such an event can be held in autumn, spring, but in always warm weather.
The shoot chosen for division must have sprout buds.
It must be delicately separated from the mother bush and planted in a new place.
♦ Cuttings. They are prepared at the very beginning of summer, slicing from last year's gain. All the lower leaves from the shoots should be removed (so that the plant takes root better) and treated with Kornevin.
For the life of the cuttings, choose a shaded corner of the garden and root them there in damp soil.
Cover the cuttings on top glass jar or part of a plastic bottle.
- Do not forget to spray them with water several times a day, tear off all the buds that appear, otherwise the flowers will greatly weaken the young plant.
♦ Layers. The simplest and easy way reproduction of Potentilla. Lightly cut your favorite escape sharp knife and bend to the ground.
Fix the place of the cut with a pin and cover with soil. Soon, after the cuttings have their own root system, the new bush is transplanted to another place.
Dangers of Potentilla
rust
The beauty has excellent immunity, is very strong and sturdy. But under unfavorable conditions (if the summer turned out to be very wet and cold), Dubrovka can get sick.
The most dangerous for the plant are two ailments:
♦ Rust. Brown-yellow spots with a noticeable purple tint appear on the leaves. Numerous spores are visible on the back of the leaves.
They can be carried downwind and infect other crops.
- They will save from this ailment foliar feeding manganese, boron. Spraying the bush with a solution of sulfur, copper-soap or zineba works well.
To protect the cinquefoil from rust, do not plant it near pine trees. Pathogens love to inhabit (live and winter) these trees.
♦ Leaf spot. The development of the disease can be seen by the multi-colored spots on the leaves (gray, brown, reddish or yellow).
All spots have a dark border (it consists of the spores of the fungus themselves).
Too dry air, lack of fertilizers, light, or sudden hypothermia can become the cause of the disease.
- All affected parts of the plant must be removed, the rest of the bush must be treated with fungicides.
In a particularly hot and dry summer, spider mites can attack a beauty.
They will give out their presence with a bronze color of the upper parts of the leaves, while they themselves will hide on the back of the crown, in the cobweb.
It's easy to get rid of them - just gently wipe the leaves with a damp soft sponge.
Now, dear readers, we have learned how to grow this most useful and beautiful plant on our personal plot. If someone has not planted it yet, then by all means do it. I also planted Potentilla seedlings this spring. Very tiny plants surprisingly quickly turned into wonderful bushes and from the middle of summer they delighted me with their flowering.
In conclusion, I propose to watch a short video about galangal, its properties and how to prepare galangal roots. Very useful video.
See you soon, dear readers!