Red Flowering Currant Hedge

The red flowering currant is a wildflower that is native to most of the west coast of the united states and canada.

Red flowering currant hedge. Visit my blog how to make a hummingbird garden for other plants that will bring hummingbirds to your garden. Both hummingbirds and butterflies are attracted to the bloom. Whatever the exposure favor rich soil and feel free to add soil conditioner to the ground when planting. Although the flowers are usually a rosy or pale pink.

In the fall flowers give rise to blue black fruit with whitish bloom. Planting flowering currant favor planting in fall or in spring but avoid freezing temperatures or high temperatures. 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. Red flowering currant the currant family grossulariaceae.

Ribes sanguineum pursh rye beez sang gwin ee um names. Red currant bushes prefer rather well drained soil. Other common names include pink winter currant and blood currant. Greyish green leaves cluster on short spur branches arranged along the twiggy stems.

Red flowering currants are early spring bloomers and the dangling flowers attract hummingbirds. Songbirds readily consume the berries. The flowers are formed in showy crimson pendulous highly scented clusters often smothering the plant and are an excellent early nectar for bees. Sanguineum means blood red referring to the color of the flowers.

You can quickly produce numerous shrubs from softwood cuttings in early summer. Choose rather well lit exposure. In a hedge space each plant at least 30 inches 80 cm apart. To make a hedge keep a distance of around 3 feet 1 meter between plants.

Red flowering currants are easy shrubs to propagate. 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. Crooked brownish stems stand erect or lean against other shrubs in open to dense thickets.