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Gold Currant

Gold Currant

Ribes aureum

  • Wide branchy shrub, 1.5 m high and wide
  • Fairly open and thin as it matures
  • Three-lobed leaf, green in the summer and a brilliant dark red in the fall
  • Yellow flowers appear in the later spring, attractive and fragrant, bloom for several weeks
  • Red or black fruit, 0.5 to 1cm in diameter, is juicy and tasty
  • Hangs on for a long time into the fall and does get sweeter with frosts
  • Winter colour of the new wood is tan

Landscape Use:

  • The showy, long-blooming flowers offer great early summer interest
  • The best and most reliable of the fruiting shrubs from the prairies
  • Reliable, predictable edible fruit production; you’ll have to race the birds for the fruit, although usually there is a heavy enough crop to go around
  • Should be included in permaculture designs
  • Makes an excellent specimen or hedging plant
  • Likes it hot, dry, open and windy
  • Extremely drought tolerant for Calgary and area gardens

Special Conditions:

  • Needs full sun and a hot, dry site


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