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Potentilla - Dakota Sunspot®
Dakota Sunspot® Potentilla, Potentilla fruticosa 'Fargo', is an attractive shrub that has showy, deep golden 1" flowers produced abundantly all summer long. This low maintenance dwarf plant has bright green summer foliage and forms a compact rounded shape at maturity. This is a compact shrub that will mature at 2 ˝ to 3 feet tall with a spread of 2 to 3 feet. Dakota Sunspot 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. You can plant it with the assurance that it will live. It requires little, if no care once established. It is compact and free flowering. It can be used as a foundation plant, in the perennial border, in mass planting, as a low hedge and even as a specimen. ... more information
Sumac - Flameleaf The Flameleaf Sumac, Rhus copallina, is a shrub or occasionally a small tree. When left alone it will often form thickets. It is widespread in open uplands along fence rows and in waste places. It is a prolific sprouter after a fire. Leaves have a winged axis and turn flame red to dark purple in the fall, hence the common name. Fruit matures in late summer remaining attached into winter and is eaten by many species of birds and white-tailed deer. White-tailed deer also use it as a browse. |
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