23+ Ribes Sanguineum Hedge

Flowering currant hedge plants description. Flowering currant ribes sanguineum is deciduous and its flowers appear before the leaves.

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Ribes sanguineum hedge

But it is also liked just as much when standing isolated in the garden in shrub beds and even in pots or garden boxes on a terrace or balcony. White pine blister rust. Flowering currant ribes sanguineum provides a good hedgerow with pink flowers in march or april providing early season colour in the garden.

The flowers are formed in showy crimson pendulous highly scented clusters often smothering the plant and are an excellent early nectar for bees. The plants bloom in early spring april to may. It can be used as part of a mixed hedge or on its own.

This fungal disease affects two hosts currant plants and white pine trees. The spores spread on the wind and cause. It is easy and quick growing in any reasonable soil.

Colors from rich red to pink and white. Whilst the ribes do not actually need pruning to flower well if the shrub has been planted in the wrong place and outgrown its position then you will need to prune the ribes to a get it back into proportion and b regular pruning to ensure that it does not again outgrow its position. The ribes flower early in the spring just after forsythia.

Other common names flowering currant koja. A deciduous shrub the flowering currant bush makes a good informal hedge. Ribes sanguineum king edward vii sku 9111 pendulous clusters of vivid crimson flowers make this the most richly colored variety of flowering currant.

Gardening Through A Lens 2012