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Instead, prune potentilla when the plants are dormant in winter and clip back the thickest stems all the way to the ground since these stems usually won’t rebloom.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025
Plant or prune ground covers to clear dead portions and stimulate new growth — including ice plant, ivy, potentilla and wild strawberry.
—Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
This also works well on potentilla and summer blooming spirea.
—Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024
Great planting partners include weigela, new and improved varieties of potentilla such as 'Bella Bellissima,' lilac such as 'Miss Kim,' and ninebark.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Mar. 2022
Inside the freezer in Framingham are tightly sealed packages containing an estimated 6 million seeds from hundreds of plant species, bearing obscure or hard-to-pronounce names like potentilla robbinsiana.
—Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025
Plant or prune ground covers to clear dead portions and stimulate new growth — including ice plant, ivy, potentilla and wild strawberry.
—Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
This also works well on potentilla and summer blooming spirea.
—Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024
Great planting partners include weigela, new and improved varieties of potentilla such as 'Bella Bellissima,' lilac such as 'Miss Kim,' and ninebark.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Mar. 2022
Inside the freezer in Framingham are tightly sealed packages containing an estimated 6 million seeds from hundreds of plant species, bearing obscure or hard-to-pronounce names like potentilla robbinsiana.
—Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
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“Potentilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/potentilla. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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