Yellow Flowering Currant Shrub
Currant jpg 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.
Yellow flowering currant shrub. If your soil is clay or sandy work in lots of organic matter before planting or prepare a raised bed. First pruning of flowering currant like most flowering shrubs pruning serves to increase foliage density and enhance flowering year after year. Currant bushes live 12 to 15 years so it s worth taking the time to prepare the soil properly. It has oval leathery leaves and lovely yellow green flowers in late winter.
Avoid using this plant near white pines since it is an alternate host of the deadly disease. Hummingbirds feed on nectar and other birds eat the berries. Ribes odoratum buffalo currant or clove currant has rich yellow clove scented flowers. They need well drained soil with plenty of organic matter and a ph between 5 5 and 7 0.
Greyish green leaves cluster on short spur branches arranged along the twiggy stems. This adaptable plant is good in sun or shade and is hardy in zones 4 to 6 and sometimes 7. Black berries in late summer. Fragrant yellow flowers in may.
Ribes laurifolium laurel leaved currant is an attractive dwarf evergreen that does well in a rock garden. Golden currant ribes aureum is valued not only for its beautiful foliage but for the bright yellow flowers that appear in spring followed by flavorful purple fruit in midsummer. Showy flowers fragrant flowers edible fruit attracts birds attracts. The fragrant yellow flowers have top blue green leaves that turn yellow in the fall.
Flowering currant can live for two to three decades. Mature size generic shrub 4 6 fall color. An excellent choice for early spring color this deciduous shrub produces abundant strongly clove scented trumpet shaped golden yellow flowers on its upright but arching branches. Crooked brownish stems stand erect or lean against other shrubs in open to dense thickets.
Height to 3ft 1m spread to 4 5ft 1 5m. After that it may lose its vigor even if you prune it diligently. White pine blister rust. Hardy to 50 f maximum elevation.
You can leave the plants alone for the first three or four years but after that cut out two or three of the oldest.