Ribes sanguineum (red flowering currant)
Flowering red currant is another plant native to the west coast of North America. Although it's berries are sometimes described as 'insipid', they were eaten fresh and dried as fruit leather by indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest. Red currants are loaded with vitamin C.
This plant was introduced to cultivation in 1826 by the famous Scottish botanist David Douglas and is now a popular ornamental shrub throughout the gardening world. This spring flower is also available in the cultivar 'Icicle White" which has been given the Royal Horticultural Society's, Award of Garden Merit.
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If that doesn’t scream Adelaide Ricciardo to you..
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Currants, anyone?
The only one missing is the pink currant, of which I only have two, tiny, still unripe berries. I planted it in May this year, so I didn't expect anything anyway.
The black and red currant plants are fairly young as well, I didn't get a significant production last year, but now I picked 350 g of black and 1.5 kg of red currants.
As for the white ones, last year I had 1.9 kg and now 2.5 kg.
(I keep weighing them as I'm curious to see how much the quantity increases from year to year and when it'll inevitably slow down)
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Redcurrant looks like a ruby ☺️
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