Red Flowering Currant is one of my favorite spring flowering shrubs. The bright pink flowers emerge in our area by mid-February and last for six weeks or so. Those bright pink flowers are pretty much ...

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. (Marci Degman) ...

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 ...

What: The native flowering currant, or ribes sanguineum, welcomes spring with a showy array of rosy-pink buds softening to a rich, clear pink. The early spring flowers have a spicy fragrance and are a ...

Most gardeners are familiar with the spicy-scented, hummingbird-attracting native flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum). It blooms in late winter when not much else is flowering in our gardens; ...

Our native shrub the red-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) has a host of cultivars that produce different-colored flowers. This includes 'White Icicle,' which has pendant clusters of white flowers ...

CORVALLIS – If you don't have much space to plant shrubs, you'll want to keep an eye out for Oregon Snowflake, a new flowering currant developed by Oregon State University that is smaller than other ...

It is unlikely that I will ever be invited to join the MCC due to my unremarkable cricketing prowess but every March and April I can enjoy the colours of their club tie – red and yellow – courtesy of ...

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 ...

They grew well in his soil, despite competition from the grass. Those flowering currants had a distinct smell. They were a bit fusty, some say catty, but for me that scent is a reminder of warm spring ...