Ribes and Berberis - two plants worth their salt!
Berberis and Ribes are two of my favourite garden plants. Ribes or flowering currant is now producing copious amounts of new spring leaves and flowers. The blackcurrant scent from this plant is amazing; you can smell the scent of ribes from at least one hundred yards. Ribes sanguineum (Flowering Currant or Red-Flowering Currant) is a species of currant native to western coastal North America from central British Colombia south to central California.There are some interesting pictures of Ribes and berberis on Google. As a gardener and designer of gardens I find the power of the web most useful when looking for plant information and pictures etc. So go ahead and use the resource that is the World Wide Web for your gardening information and a lot more besides.
Berberis or as it is commonly called barberry is not yet in flower. From mid-to late spring you will notice the orange flowers of berberis darwinii in a lot of front gardens; the blue berries appear in autumn. Plant berberis as a vandal-resistant or barrier hedge
posted by Thomas @ 1:26 am
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