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Redcurrant and Blackcurrant Bushes
Growing currants is easy and produces large crops of delicious berries packed with nutrients, as well as attracting pollinators to your garden. Our blackcurrants are Scottish bred varieties grown outdoors so they’re used to inclement weather and are guaranteed to grow strong and healthy in any area of the UK. Currants are best eaten fresh and are rarely found in the shops, so the best way of getting your supply of this very British superfood is to grow your own!
Which currant is best for you?
Choose Ben Lomond, Ben Connan or Big Ben blackcurrants for perfect pies and jams - they’re all frost resistant too. Redcurrants can be eaten raw and will thrive even in North facing gardens - both Rovada and Red Lake are high cropping varieties. If your plot is a little shadier, choose pink or white currants - they don’t need as much sun as the others and these translucent little gems look as lovely as they taste.
Growers' tips
Currant plants are largely trouble-free and will reward you with large crops. Feed them with a high potash fertiliser in the growing season and be sure to harvest them on a dry day. Remove any weeds around your plants by hand, as the roots are easily damaged. Blackcurrants need full sun, so position your plants in a warm, sheltered spot. They all do best when planted in the ground - make sure the soil is well drained and kept moist. Red and white currants can cope with colder conditions, thrive in pots and can be trained.
Using your currants
Currants are often seen garnishing delicious desserts in restaurants, but they’re much more than a pretty berry. Make yours into a pie with chunks of caramelised bramley apple or try your hand at a cordial, jelly or jam. They make a juicy addition to a summer pudding too, but be warned - once you try a sweet whitecurrant fresh from the garden, it’s hard to stop!
Produces fruit almost 3x the size of other varieties
- Produces extremely large fruit
- Developed especially for the fresh market
- Easy to pick fruit
- High disease resistance
One of the best varieties available
- Large red fruit in summer
- Superbly flavoured
- RHS plants for pollinators winner
- Perfect for pies, tarts & jelly
Frost resistant - ideal for colder climates
- Boasts a superb rich flavour
- Grows compactly
- Ideally suited for UK climate
- Perfect for small spaces
Heavy cropping early redcurrant
- Clusters of large, juicy redcurrants
- Impressive yields from early July
- Hardy, low-maintenance plants
- RHS award winner
Sweet, fragrant and easy to grow
- Soft, translucent pink fruits
- Old French currant variety
- Perfect for summer puddings
- Bursting with sweetness
Up to 30% more fruit than other varieties
- A compact and heavily cropping blackcurrant
- Harvest from mid July
- Mildew resistance means you can plant closer together - even as a hedge
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
Sweet, translucent currants
- Gorgeous, irridescent white fruits
- Sweeter tasting than redcurrants
- Pale yellow flowers amid lobed foliage
- Grow in pots or borders
Bring your garden back to life!
- Aromatic deciduous foliage and magenta pink flowers
- A must for any wildlife-friendly border
- Average growth rate between 20-40cm per year
- Grows to 1.5-2.5m, easily maintained at 1m
Glossy fruits of delicious flavour
- Freezes & stores well
- Perfect for cooking with
- Produces glossy fruit of delicious flavour
- Attracts bees and other pollinators
Outstanding juicy flavour
- Long strings of large redcurrants
- Excellent for cooking
- Freezes & stores well
- Outstanding juicy flavour
The crowning glory of the spring garden
- Deepest pink scented flowers, deciduous foliage and edible berries
- Perfect as a border plant or informal hedging
- Average growth rate between 20-40cm per year
- Grows to around 2-3m
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