29+ Pink Flowering Currant Ribes Sanguineum

Ribes claremont bursts into glorious mouth watering display beginning in february and lasting thru april. Although the flowers are usually a rosy or pale pink.

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Pink flowering currant ribes sanguineum

Icicle is another variety with creamy white flowers. It is best grown in full to part sun in moist but well drained soils. Pink flowering currant is a five foot deciduous shrub with long showy pink flower clusters that cover the plant in january to march.

One of my favorites r. There are several named cultivated varieties with red pink two tone or white flowers. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones as far south.

Ribes sanguineum glutinosum is native to canyons and north slopes in the coast ranges. Excellent as a specimen plant hedge or border plant flowering currant ribes sanguineum and its varieties thrive in a range of u s. Claremont not only keeps the hummingbirds coming back for more but also does it superbly by cloaking itself in pink.

It is also known as ribes sanguineum and the most popular variety king edward vii delivers beautiful reddish pink flowers. Sanguineum means blood red referring to the color of the flowers. This currant likes shade to part shade moderate water in interior very drought tolerant in coastal gardens.

Flowering currant is another lesser known yet beautiful shrub that blooms early in the spring. I view its welcoming branches above my pond covered in racemes of dark pink buds opening to a lighter hue of pink. The flowering currant ribes attracts hummingbirds like no other shrub in late winter to early spring.

Little Swamp Creek Hello Spring 2013