The Potentilla 'Royal Velvet', Potentilla fruticosa, is a long-blooming perennial that boasts brilliant velvety red flowers rising above dark green strawberry-like leaves. This plant is excellent for borders and tolerant of a wide range of soils. Royal Velvet Potentilla 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. The flowers are borne atop the tips of the new growth. It is best to thin this plant in late winter by cutting back about one third of the stems near the ground (older stems only). Potentilla also serves as a butterfly nectar source and a host for butterfly larvae. It has an attractive green, copper fall color.

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