Blackcurrant
Ribes nigrum
In Dutch: Zwarte bes
ShrubsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 0.6 to 1.5 m
- Spread
- 1 to 1.5 m
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Moist but not wet: clay, loam or sand
- Water
- Average: keep it moist
- Maintenance
- Low
- Flowers
- April and May, reddish green
- For bees
- Yes: plenty of nectar and pollen, April and May
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No: the berries are edible
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €2.30 to €3 each, 60-90 cm, bare-root
- Price, grown
- Not for sale
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to October
- Flower
- April to May
- Fruit
- June to August