Albert Parsons/For the Sun Nothing rivals the brilliance of golden-yellow potentilla blossoms. The pink flowers of ‘Pink Beauty’ tend to fade to pale pink or even white in direct sun.

Of these wildflowers, rough-fruited cinquefoil (Potentilla recta) ... The berries are peculiar in that the red are nearly as pleasant-tasted as the more fully ripe dark-purple ones." ...

How to grow: Potentilla. John Hoyland admires a plant with pretty, ... An offspring of P. nepalensis and P. recta, this is perhaps the choicest of the potentillas, with pale pink, ...