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- How to care for your finger shrub - tips and tricks
- Plant the finger shrub properly
- Pour and fertilize the finger shrub
- Cut the finger shrub properly
- The essentials in brief:
- Tips
In a sunny spot the finger shrub feels most comfortable
How to care for your finger shrub - tips and tricks
The finger shrub (bot. Potentilla fruticosa) is non-toxic, quite easy-care, robust and also very flowering. This makes it almost ideal for gardeners and family gardens. He is suitable for colorful perennial beds but also the planting of a flowering hedge.
Plant the finger shrub properly
The finger shrub grows and flowers best in a sunny spot with a fresh soil. This may be a bit heavier, calcareous and rather nutrient poor. The best time for planting is early spring and autumn, but in principle you can plant the finger shrub in any season, provided the soil is not frozen.
Pour and fertilize the finger shrub
Since the finger shrub needs neither a lot of nutrients nor a lot of water, its maintenance is very easy. Only during a longer dry season, you should water your young finger shrub a little bit. In the spring, give him some extra fertilizer. For a little extra nitrogen fertilizer in May or June, thank the finger shrub with a rich flowering.
Cut the finger shrub properly
The finger shrub does not necessarily need a regular pruning, but it also recovers quite well from a radical cut. If he is in a mixed hedge, then take your cutting measures for possibly more sensitive plants.
From time to time you may need to make a correction cut on your finger shrub. This is best done in early spring. However, autumn cuts are also well tolerated. If the flowering ability of the shrub diminishes over the years, then a vigorous pruning is quite stimulating.
The essentials in brief:
Tips
The easy-care finger shrub harmonizes very well with other flowering shrubs such as ornamental cherries Weigelien or the willow shrub, but also with perennials and / or roses.