![]() This tough shrub should be a backbone plant in every sunny low-maintenance garden, it is so easy to grow and reliable in blooming. Using the Goldfinger Cinquefoil in Your Garden Insignificant dry brown seed pods are often produced. Unlike some other colors in this plant, which fade in bright sun, more sun just seems to produce brighter flowers in the Goldfinger Cinquefoil. The petals are a wonderful bright, golden yellow. The flowers of this variety are larger than with many others – a full 1½ inches across – open cups of 5 broad petals with a glistening surface, surrounding a central cluster of yellow stamens. The flowers are carried along the upper parts of the stems, sprouting singly from every leaf cluster. The leaves wither in fall without any significant change in color.įlowering is profuse and continuous, from May into September, with new blossoms replacing the old ones quickly. The leaves are dark-green, with a slight bluish tone, but they, and young shoots, are covered in a soft layer of silvery hairs, which gives the plant a soft feel and a slightly silver-green look. These slender leaflets taper to a point and have smooth edges. Each leaf is typically divided into 5 (as few as three or as many as 9) finger-like leaflets, each about ¾ of a inch long. Older stems are covered in light brown shredding bark and the leaves on older stems are carried in clusters along the branches. It has a bushy habit with many slender branches, forming a pleasant mound. The Goldfinger Cinquefoil is a small deciduous shrub with a broad form, growing 2 to 3 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide. When the going gets tough, hot and dry, it thrives defiantly and flowers even more profusely – not bad, huh? Growing the Goldfinger Cinquefoil Size and Appearance No low-maintenance garden should be without the Goldfinger Cinquefoil, whose Midas touch brightens the drabbest garden so easily. The big golden flowers are produced for months, and the casual mounded look of this broad shrub is perfect for any garden. ‘Cinquefoil’ means ‘five leaves’ and the leaves are indeed typically divided into 5 smaller leaflets. Named of course after the James Bond movie from 1964, this wonderful shrub – and other cinquefoils – should be the core of any low-maintenance sunny garden in all but the hottest parts of the country. If you want to fill your garden with golden flowers all summer, on mounding bushes that are about as tough as any bush gets, then look no further than the Goldfinger Cinquefoil. Older plants can be regenerated by removing a few of the oldest stems low down near the ground. It is usually untroubled by pests, diseases and deer, and needs virtually no care. It is very cold hardy, as well as sun and dryness tolerant, growing well in zone 3. Ideal choice for low-maintenance gardeningįull sun gives the best results with the Goldfinger Cinquefoil, but it will tolerate a little shade.Thrives in poor soil and difficult conditions.Grows well in hot, sunny parts of your garden.Mounding shrub with small, dark-green leaves.Large, bright yellow flowers from May to September.It can be trimmed as needed for informal hedges, and grows well on slopes, in sunny areas, among rocks and in poor soil conditions. The flowers are 1½ inches across, like golden bowls of captured sunlight, and flowering is more or less non-stop from May to September. The leaves are divided into 5 leaflets like fingers on a hand, and they are dark green, covered in fine silvery hairs. While the foliage and flowers are toxic, native people reportedly used the non-toxic seeds to make pinole, a mix of seeds and spices - considered to be a paleo "superfood," added to drinks, or tortillas.The Goldfinger Cinquefoil is a mounding deciduous shrub that grows to 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide. It needs at least partial sun to thrive, but adapts excellently to any moist area: rain gardens, vernal pools, damp meadows, bioswales, and rainwater detention basins. In natural areas, Western buttercup occurs in open damp meadows and partially shaded forest understories. With low basal leaves, the foliage remains discrete in meadows, allowing the brilliant flowers to really standout above a grassy canopy. With a long bloom time (from early spring through early summer), they overlap and contrast beautifully with the flowers of sea blush and camas (both of which this plant commonly occurs with in the wild). Western buttercup virtually glows in otherwise drizzly grey spring landscapes, adding constellations of bright yellow in grassy green prairies, meadows, and lawns.
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