- Approximate height: 30cm (12 inches)
- Recommended water depth over crown of plant: 0 - 10cm (0 - 4 inches)
- Flowering time: Late May to July
- Flower colour: Red
- Supplied in the solid 9cm pot we grow them in - for best results we recommend potting on using a 1 litre pot
This charming British native produces velvety, wine-red flowers with five petals in summer. These blooms are highly attractive to bees and hoverflies, and the plant is included on the RHS' Plants for Pollinators list. Here at our nursery, the flowers attract at least four types of bumblebee.
It has green, deeply divided leaves on elongated, reddish, slightly woody stems that grow outward almost horizontally, giving it its common name, 'Bog Strawberry.' Taller, upright stems then emerge as the plant flowers. Unlike true strawberries though, Potentilla palustris is slow-growing, making it well suited to small ponds. It is also known as Comarum palustre.
Please note: Potentilla palustris has a shallow root system, so the pot it comes in won't be filled all the way to the top.
If designing a planting scheme, we recommend approximately 4 Potentilla palustris plants per square foot of ground, or 2 plants per linear foot of pond edge. Read more here on how to pot and care for your plant.