Pulborough Scarlet

Variety of Red flowering currant · Ribes sanguineum

Popular ornamental shrub with bright, deep-red flower clusters in spring.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Medium-sized, upright ornamental shrub that flowers profusely in spring with pendulous, deep-red racemes; a valuable early bee forage.

Flowering currant grown mainly as an ornamental; the dark berries are edible but of little culinary value.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Red flowering currant unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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