I have grown, maintained, and harvested blackcurrant, redcurrant, and whitecurrant bushes in walled kitchen gardens and on my home plots for many years. I always found them simple to grow, easy to ...

The genus Ribes contains about 150 species, including the gooseberry (R. grossularia L.). Traditionally this genus is placed in the Saxifragaceae, along with many ornamentals such as saxifrage, mock ...

Ribes sanguineum, known as California native flowering currant, has become a popular choice for gardeners wanting to add something fragrant to their partial shade garden. The dangling racemes of pink ...

The plant in the upper half of the photo is a red-flowering currant, in the lower part is a hellebore in bloom. Together, they make a striking spring show in the Northwest landscape. The red-flowering ...

Oregon State University has developed a flowering currant called Oregon Snowflake, a low-growing shrub that is smaller than other currants. If you don't have much space to plant shrubs, you'll want to ...

Black Currant Black currants are being considered for their potential in treating a wide range of conditions involving inflammation. The black currant, which grows on a small, shrublike bush, has an ...

One of our earliest spring flowers, this shrub isn’t easily overlooked. Gently drooping clusters of dark pink, tubular flowers that erupt just ahead of the wide-oval, bluntly-notched leaves are the ...