Potentilla Fruticosa Bonsai

This one was styled by aaron at lakeshore bonsai in toronto.

Potentilla fruticosa bonsai. It quickly forms a dense branch structure and the trunk rapidly develops an aged look even on young plants due the characteristic peeling red bark. Planning to put a nusery potentilla in a bonsai pot straight away this spring. Actually it s exposed roots neagari style not aerial roots. Award winning potentilla fruticosa pink beauty shrubby cinquefoil is a bushy deciduous shrub of upright habit boasting masses of clear pink flowers from late spring to the first frosts.

Mar 26 2019. Who has worked with potentilla fruticosa. It responds well to bonsai techniques including pruning and growing in a pot. Potentilla bunjin turned upside down.

Potentilla fruticosa is a popular and common garden shrub that makes an excellent bonsai subject. Though i would have planted it a bit deeper. Dasiphora fruticosa is a disputed name and the plant is still widely referenced in the horticultural literature under its synonym potentilla fruticosa. Potentilla fruticosa 4 years 3 months ago 19683 cronic wrote.

Potentilla fruiticosa is a compact bushy deciduous shrub with pinnate leaves to 4cm long composed of 5 to 7 narrowly oblong dark green leaflets. Typical for this plant are its pinnate five to seven petaled flowers which resemble the fingers of a human hand. Messages 1 752 reaction score 3 813 location uk. For use as bonsai it is the shrubby potentilla fruiticosa and its varieties that are commonly used.

Collecting garden potentilla bush. Resembling wild roses the blossoms are so profuse that they literally smother the plant. Not a fan of aireal roots. Potentilla fruticosa is a spectacular long flowering plant which is strewed with yellow white or salmon pink flowers from may to october.