In my own garden, I use Potentillas for seasonal color. I like the fact that they provide garden color for the better part of five months. Although the plants are never really loaded with flowers, they never the less provide a nice continual flower display all summer long.
Flowers range in shades from white, to light and dark yellow, orange to red.
The flowers are not only attractive in the garden, the branches can be cut and used for indoor summer flower arranging. Leaf color varies in color, by varieties, from light to medium green, to almost gray-green. Since this is a deciduous shrub, the leaves fall-off in the autumn, after turning a golden yellow. The lower growing varieties are suitable as ground cover plants, while the taller growing varieties are nice for borders, foundation plants, and can be used effectively in individual or group plantings. And, with an evergreen background their bare branches are not as noticeable during the winter dormant season.