(Herunterladen) Red Flowering Currant Hedge

Planting flowering currant favor planting in fall or in spring but avoid freezing temperatures or high temperatures.

Red flowering currant hedge. Red flowering currants are early spring bloomers and the dangling flowers attract hummingbirds. Both hummingbirds and butterflies are attracted to the bloom. The flowers are formed in showy crimson pendulous highly scented clusters often smothering the plant and are an excellent early nectar for bees. Red flowering currant a member of the gooseberry family grows in the form of a medium to tall shrub from one to three metres tall. Sanguineum means blood red referring to the color of the flowers. There are both red king edward vii and white white icicle flowering cultivars available in the trade. Visit my blog how to make a hummingbird garden for other plants that will bring hummingbirds to your garden.

Red flowering currants are easy shrubs to propagate. Crooked brownish stems stand erect or lean against other shrubs in open to dense thickets. Red flowering currant the currant family grossulariaceae. Follow the nature and garden tips on how to plant a shrub. Other common names include pink winter currant and blood currant. Ribes sanguineum pursh rye beez sang gwin ee um names. You can quickly produce numerous shrubs from softwood cuttings in early summer.

Songbirds readily consume the berries. Flowering currant hedge plants description flowering currant ribes sanguineum is deciduous and its flowers appear before the leaves. In a hedge space each plant at least 30 inches 80 cm apart. Greyish green leaves cluster on short spur branches arranged along the twiggy stems. This 6 10 foot tall deciduous shrub is hardy in usda planting zones 5 10 in early spring it produces pendulous clusters of red or pink flowers that attract and feed hummingbirds bees and butterflies. Whatever the exposure favor rich soil and feel free to add soil conditioner to the ground when planting. The red flowering currant is a wildflower that is native to most of the west coast of the united states and canada.

Red currant bushes prefer rather well drained soil. In the fall flowers give rise to blue black fruit with whitish bloom.