Ribes sanguineum
(flowering currant or red-flowering currant)
Two weeks ago the buds were tightly closed, yet already such a pretty splash of colour…
Ten days later the buds started opening at the top of each raceme
One by one
From bud to berry – several weeks of pleasure, even if the berries are not of the edible kind. The bees adore these flowers too.
😀
There’s something about flowering currants – don’t know what, but they give me the creeps. And I know the bees love them, but I just can’t have them in the garden… are there any plants that you really don’t want to grow?
Perhaps the smell puts you off? I don’t like prickly things like Berberitz (which is unfortunately in our front patch) but also hate busy lizzies! (And spiderwort!)
Oh, so pretty! 🙂
It’s been beautiful while it lasted! 😀
Spring is my favorite time of the year, beautiful photos you have here.
Thank you Melody – nice of you to stop by!
The daily progress: how beautiful and satisfying to go out in the garden and find the oncoming of spring . . . such lovely photos . . .
I have to really look every day, in case I miss something! 😉
Ypur currantis a lovely colour, the flowering currants I’ve seen before have never been such a good colour. This time is so special with the garden changing almost from minute to minute. Christina
You’re so right Christina – you can almost watch it grow! Our ferns have started sprouting and gain several centimetres a day!
I have never seen currants growing…these are so pretty.
The edible kind have such insignificant pale flowers, but these flowers are such a show it’s hard to believe they are so closely related!
Oh so pretty Cathy. I’m on the look out for the white version.
I’ve also been looking for a paler one. There’s one called “White Icicle” which is pretty. Good luck with the search!
Flowering currant is one of my favourite signs of spring 🙂 Mine’s in its glory now.
Aren’t they great! I watched all the different types of bees on mine yesterday. 😀
I´ve seen flowers in the woods not yet in the garden. I like them very much and the fruits too 🙂
Nice Sunday! Uta.
These currants are only decorative – very tiny, seedy and sour. My neighbours have redcurrants though and I often get a bowlful given me!
These are such underrated plants – they have a particular smell that transports me to my childhood home and making mud pies 🙂
What a lovely memory – although the smell is perhaps not so nice! I remember using rose petals in my mud pies, so am often taken back to my childhood when smelling roses! 😉
What a brilliant splash of color…very nice!
Colour is always good – as you know! 😉
This is gorgeous Cathy. Haven’t seen flowering currant before and I love the color.
It is paler when the heat gets to it, but as soon as the weather cools down again it turns deeper pink again – aren’t plants amazing! 😀
I haven’t seen flowering currants before, but they are very lovely. I don’t like many bees around one bush / flower though. They make me stay away from that flower 🙂
Oh dear! They are so busy they won’t do you any harm – and so important for nature. Hope you can befriend them soon!
Hm… We’ll see 😉