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What is this plant called

Barn FieldBarn Field Posts: 47
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I've inherited a few scruffy plants in pots and sadly the previous owner is no longer around to tell me what they are called.  Can anyone tell me the name of this plant and any advice about it's care would be appreciated. Thank you.

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  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190

    Potentilla, possibly P. Esta Ann. It is easy to grow, and would be better in the ground . than in a pot.

  • Barn FieldBarn Field Posts: 47

    Thank you that's very helpful.  It will be put in the garden once we've sorted it out.

  • g.miller5g.miller5 Posts: 2

    The leaves on this plant and the shape of it are like the GEUMs,I have in my garden there are so many Species you would be best to google it .

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    Not a geum.  Potentilla.  Both are good plants with flowers in a  good range of colours but very different leaves.

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  • g.miller5g.miller5 Posts: 2

    Leaves are defiantly like one of my many Guem.

  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700

    The plant maybe the barren strawberry, Potentilla Sterilis.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Not barren strawb, that has white petals, rather widely spaced, this is a garden variety/hybrid 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700

    Nutcutlet, you're right, had a look again, they are wide spaced. 

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