While currants have long been a classic for in-ground gardening, you may have hesitated on growing them in planters. Though they may not be the best berries to grow in containers, you don't have to ...

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 ...

Bright yellow flowers dangle like trumpets from the branches of clove currants. Instead of a resounding blare, though, these trumpets give off a heavenly, clove-like aroma. Don’t confuse clove currant ...

FOR DECADES, THEY were literally a forbidden fruit. Fresh currants are a popular crop in Europe and grow reasonably well in Washington state. But the tart, translucent strings of berries — “little ...

Each spring, rows of small, yellow tubes dangling from the branches of a flowering currant flare open at their ends like trumpets to welcome in spring. Instead of a trumpet's blare, a heavenly, ...

My favorite berries are blueberries (wild Alaska ones, of course) and raspberries, but I also have a special place in my heart for currants. Like many Americans, currants aren’t a mainstay. I first ...

The plant that had been grown in the U.S. since colonial times can serve as host to white pine blister rust, which led to a federal ban on currant plants in 1912 in order to protect the pine trees and ...

In Southeast Alaska we are surrounded by a living, flowing and berried world. The Inside Passage rises and falls, wispy cirrus clouds drift, sandpipers migrate, and red currants drop into our buckets ...

I can’t remember how the subject of currants came up. I’m not talking about electrical currents or current events. I’m referring to the fruit, currants. The French call it cassis. I couldn’t ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. My nephew is a landscaper in southwest Mississippi. One of his elderly clients ...