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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, Central New York gardening writer Carol T. Bradford responds to a reader question. Dear Carol: I have a question about jostaberries. I've two bushes that are up pretty good. Nice and green ...

When the sun pours through their translucent skins, red currants (Ribes rubrum) resemble clusters of tiny rubies. There are native varieties of currant — the red-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum), ...

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

No need to choose between planting either an ornamental or a fruiting bush in your yard. Plant both with a single plant! Many berry bushes are pretty enough to be grown as landscape plants. Let’s ...

After dinner one night this summer, I served currants as a garnish on dessert. The pink, round, little fruits from a newly planted bush rolled off the cake slices like BBs out of a gun—quite a few of ...