How to Care Cinquefoils

Cinquefoils 'Red Ace' is a cultivar created for its ability to produce masses of red flowers, which cover the whole plant between late spring and frost. They have an extremely long blooming season. They grow about 61 to 91 cm wide and resist pests and diseases very well.

Cinquefoils 'Katherine Dykes' is an upright, low-growing shrub that boasts lemon-yellow, five-petaled flowers that bloom from late spring to early autumn. A hardy cinquefolis cultivar with an arching form makes cinquefoils 'Katherine Dykes' best suited for use in borders and edges.

Cinquefoils 'Flamenco' dazzles with bounteous, vibrant red to yellow flowers atop slender stems. Its attractive foliage of dainty, multi-lobed leaves forms a lush, low-growing mound, resilient in a variety of garden settings. This herbaceous perennial thrives best in well-drained soils, revealing its vivid blossoms through summer, attracting pollinators and admirers alike.

Cinquefoils 'Scarlet Starlit' is a popular ornamental cinquefoil whose smaller stature than the parent plant makes it a good choice for the beds and borders of cottage gardens. Its salt tolerance also makes it suitable for a coastal garden. This Himalayan native is named for its bright scarlet flowers.

The cinquefoils 'Pink Beauty' is also known as a shrubby cinquefoil. Looking much like a wild rose, this shrub blooms profusely in pale pink flowers, hence the name. They grow about 61 to 91 cm wide. They are very hardy and have a long blooming season.

Cinquefoils 'Abbotswood' is a cultivar created for its ability to produce masses of white flowers which cover the whole plant between late spring and the first frost. They have an extremely long blooming season. They grow about 61 to 91 cm wide and are almost pest and disease free. Cinquefoils 'Abbotswood' was named for a town in England.

Where most cinquefoils have yellow or, occasionally, white flowers cinquefoils 'Tilford Cream' instead has attractive cream-white flowers. It is for this that the plant gets its name — likening the flower color to the dairy cream of the rich pastures of Tilford, in Surrey, England. This versatile plant grows well in many parts of the garden including borders, hedges, and gravel gardens.

Scarlet cinquefoil 'Monarch's Velvet' is dainty and delightful, boasting raspberry-colored flowers that contrast greatly with the plant's green foliage. It's a Potentilla hybrid whose blooms are a deeper red color than that of the plant species it was cultivated from. The name was likely given to bring attention to scarlet cinquefoil 'Monarch's Velvet''s flowers, soft like velvet.

Stranvaesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae.

Cliffortia is a genus of plants that has been assigned to the rose family, with currently 132 known species. Its species can be found in southern Africa, particularly in the Cape Floristic Region. Cliffortia species are mostly upright shrubs, but some species develop into small trees of up to 5 m high. The stipules have merged with the base of the leaf and form a sheath around the branch. Leaflets may be thin or leathery, broad to needle-shaped, with the margin serrated or entire, and may have a spiny tip. Cliffortia has separate male and female flowers in the leaf axils, which are mostly set individually but sometimes in clusters. One or two achenes may develop in each flower, within the inflating calyx.

The dichotomanthes genus contains the sole species Dichotomanthes tristaniaecarpa, which is a small tree/shrub native to Eastern Asia. This species favors mixed evergreen forest habitats at medium altitudes. It produces late-spring white flowers as well as red fruit cylinders from late summer through fall.

Gardeners can plant drymocallis around trees to create a wild, woody ground cover. The plants have bright or pale green leaves that may be spiked or lobed, and they grow from kidney-shaped seeds. The flowers are small yellow or white blooms.