[Download] 60 Flowering Currant Leaves

Follow these simple instructions to propagate your own red flowering currant bushes.

Flowering currant leaves. Greyish green leaves cluster on short spur branches arranged along the twiggy stems. The foliage emits a pungent sage like fragrance during hot summer days. Flower color varies from white or pale pink to rose pink or deep red. 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. The red flowering currant is a wildflower that is native to most of the west coast of the united states and canada. Crooked brownish stems stand erect or lean against other shrubs in open to dense thickets. Have pruning scissors a sharp knife and a small shovel handy.

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. Start these tasks early in the morning on a cool day in june or july. Dig a small hole in good soil. Early morning ensures shrub stems are full of. Flowers are lovely small greenish cup shapes with flared petals and sometimes tinged with brownish purple growing along the length of the flowering stem. Leaves are 5 lobed similar to a maple leaf crinkly and finely hairy on the undersides. Here is how to fend off powdery mildew the fine layer of white mold developing on leaves.

The larger more palmate leaves when crushed have been compared to the odor of skunk for better or worse.