Potentilla Tangerine
A Vibrant Garden Performer for Every Season
Overview
Potentilla Tangerine (Potentilla fruticosa 'Tangerine') is a delightful deciduous shrub that brings months of cheerful colour to any garden. This hardy, low-maintenance plant produces masses of bright tangerine-orange flowers from late spring through to autumn, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking reliable, long-lasting display.
Key Features
Flower Power: The star attraction of Potentilla Tangerine is its abundance of five-petalled, buttercup-like flowers in warm tangerine tones. These blooms appear continuously from May through October, providing one of the longest flowering seasons of any garden shrub.
Compact Growth: Reaching a mature height of 0.5-1.0cm with a similar spread, this well-behaved shrub maintains a naturally rounded, dense habit without requiring extensive pruning.
Hardy Constitution: Exceptionally cold-hardy (down to -30°C), drought-tolerant once established, and unfazed by poor soils, Potentilla Tangerine thrives where many other flowering shrubs struggle.
Growing Conditions
Light Requirements: Performs best in full sun to partial shade. Maximum flower production occurs with at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily.
Soil Preferences: Adaptable to most soil types, including clay, sand, and chalk. Prefers well-draining conditions but tolerates both dry and occasionally wet soils. pH adaptable from slightly acidic to alkaline.
Watering Needs: Low to moderate. Requires regular watering during establishment (first year), then becomes notably drought-tolerant.
Planting and Care
When to Plant: Best planted in spring (March-May) or autumn (September-November) when soil temperatures are moderate.
Spacing: Allow 1-1.5 metres between plants for hedging, or use as specimen plants with adequate space for mature spread.
Maintenance: Minimal pruning required. Light pruning in late winter or early spring helps maintain shape and encourages fresh growth. Remove spent flowers periodically to promote continued blooming, though this isn't essential.
Feeding: Generally unfussy about nutrition. A light application of general-purpose fertiliser in spring benefits growth, but established plants often thrive without supplemental feeding.
Garden Uses
Border Planting: Excellent for mixed borders, providing structure and continuous colour alongside perennials and other shrubs.
Low Hedging: Creates attractive informal hedges for path edging or garden division.
Container Growing: Suitable for large containers on patios and terraces, though will require more regular watering.
Wildlife Garden: Flowers attract bees, hoverflies, and other beneficial insects throughout the growing season.
Companion Plants
Pairs beautifully with lavender, rosemary, and other Mediterranean herbs. Complements blue and purple flowers particularly well—consider planting alongside catmint, hardy geraniums, or autumn-flowering asters for striking colour combinations.
Seasonal Interest
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Spring: Fresh green foliage emerges, followed by first flush of flowers
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Summer: Peak flowering period with masses of tangerine blooms
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Autumn: Continued flowering until first hard frost, with foliage taking on subtle yellow tones
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Winter: Attractive branching structure provides winter interest
Why Choose Potentilla Tangerine?
This shrub represents exceptional value for busy gardeners. Its extended flowering season, minimal care requirements, and adaptability to various conditions make it ideal for both novice and experienced gardeners. The warm orange flowers provide a cheerful focal point that works in both traditional cottage gardens and contemporary landscape designs.
Perfect for anyone seeking a reliable, colourful shrub that delivers maximum impact with minimal effort—truly a plant that works as hard as you do in the garden.
Buying Shrubs from Jacksons Nurseries
At Jacksons Nurseries we sell a variety of shrubs both evergreen and deciduous with a variety of flowering times throughout the year. At certain times of the year our shrubs you buy from us may not look like the images shown on our website when deciduous leaves have fallen, the shrub has finished flowering or has been trimmed back.
Some leaves on evergreen shrubs can be damaged in winter by frost or harsh winds but in spring new leaves will readily replace those damaged. This is quite normal on many evergreen varieties and is preferable to plants grown with excessive protection that show cold shock once planted out and establish less satisfactory initially.
Availability: Stock availability figures are provided as a guide only. There is a delay between orders being placed and the plants being gathered by our pulling team. During this time it may be possible for a member of the public to purchase these plants from our Garden Centre, while this is rare it is a possibility and we will notify you of any problems as soon as possible. This figure may also include plants that have not yet be flagged as unsaleable.
Pre-order: Pre-order times are given as a guide only and may vary dependent on the growing season. Orders containing Pre-ordered products will be shipped as a single order when all items become available. Large orders may be part shipped, please contact us on 01782 502741 or email sales@jacksonsnurseries.co.uk.
* Please Note: Shrubs in 20 litre pots and above might require a pallet delivery starting at £79.99 per pallet. Depending on the exact pot size and height it may be possible to get approximately 5 plants per pallet at no extra cost. The maximum height we can dispatch on a pallet is 2.0m, this includes the height of the pallet and pot.
Shrubs are deciduous or evergreen woody plants, and often provide fragrant flowers, berries and foliage. They are good for structural framework, and they can provide a wonderful shelter and food source for wildlife.
Planting and Conditions
Container grown shrubs can be grown at any time of year. It is a little known fact that shrubs planted in the autumn and winter will be easier to look after than those planted in the spring and summer, because they will have time to establish and become hardy in the cooler months.
Plant the shrub at the same depth as it was in its original pot. Planting too deeply can result in root and stem rot.
One of the biggest causes of death in new shrubs is drought stress, so keep it well watered until it’s established.
Make sure you loosen the soil prior to planting. Most shrubs are tolerant of most soil types as long as it is fairly well draining.
Most shrubs will grow happily in containers, but they will be much more demanding on feeding and watering than shrubs in the ground would be. They will also need potting on every couple of years so that they don’t suffocate or become stunted in their pot.
Aftercare and Pruning
Once established, shrubs generally do not require much water. However, at first they need careful, frequent watering and should not be left to dry out.
Shrubs in the ground are generally not demanding and in most cases, annual feeding with general purpose fertilizer will suffice. Shrubs in containers may need more feeding; usually from early spring until late summer.
Shrubs also benefit from mulching in order to supress weeds, conserve moisture and provide vital nutrients. Mulch also greatly improves soil conditions. Shrubs can be mulched in late winter, after fertiliser has been applied, but it can be mulched through autumn to late spring as long as the ground is damp.
All shrubs benefit from dead-heading once spent flowers become apparent. Rhododendrons and Lilac especially benefit from the removal of dead flowers.
Some shrubs may show signs of reverted growth or ‘sporting’. This is where random shoots of different leaves associated with the plant’s parentage begin to appear. Most commonly this is where plants with variegated leaves sprout pure green growths instead of variegated ones.
To control reversion, remove reverted shoots promptly to discourage them. Reverted shoots are usually much more vigorous than the variegated ones, and thus should be completely pruned out and cut back into wood containing variegated foliage.
Potential Issues
Although shrubs are usually very robust garden plants, they can sometimes start to decline with no apparent or obvious reason.
This will start with browning leaves, which could indicate plant stress due to lack of water or waterlogging, an establishment failure or, in the worst case scenario, honey fungus. Another cause of leaf browning is a high salt content in the soil. This could be a natural occurrence, especially if you live near the ocean, or it could be from over fertilisation.
To remedy a high salt content, cut back on fertiliser and step up your watering regime for the next few weeks. If you live by the ocean, this will be harder to remedy—but stepping up your watering will help to wash some of the salt away all the same.
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