CORVALLIS – If you don't have much space to plant shrubs, you'll want to keep an eye out for Oregon Snowflake, a new flowering currant developed by Oregon State University that is smaller than other ...

Hummingbirds are a welcome visitor in just about any outdoor space. Whether you're attempting to attract more hummingbirds to your garden as a birdwatcher, looking to help out the local wildlife, or ...

What: The native flowering currant, or ribes sanguineum, welcomes spring with a showy array of rosy-pink buds softening to a rich, clear pink. The early spring flowers have a spicy fragrance and are a ...

Flowering currant and California gooseberry are California native shrubs in the genus Ribes. Ribes sanguineum glutinosum and Ribes californicum, respectively, are deciduous in the winter with full ...

The plant in the upper half of the photo is a red-flowering currant, in the lower part is a hellebore in bloom. Together, they make a striking spring show in the Northwest landscape. (Marci Degman) ...

Late winter in the Bay Area offers a surprising variety of choices to the ambitious gardener, and one of the most attractive shrubs readily available has the added virtue of being a California native.

Our native shrub the red-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) has a host of cultivars that produce different-colored flowers. This includes 'White Icicle,' which has pendant clusters of white flowers ...

It is unlikely that I will ever be invited to join the MCC due to my unremarkable cricketing prowess but every March and April I can enjoy the colours of their club tie – red and yellow – courtesy of ...

Ribes sanguineum, known as California native flowering currant, has become a popular choice for gardeners wanting to add something fragrant to their partial shade garden. The dangling racemes of pink ...

David Douglas, the plant collector, sent back seedlings of Ribes sanguineum from North America in 1826. The Royal Horticultural Society, which backed his three-year expedition, was delighted with the ...