Normally you take out the oldest third each year.most currants fruit on second year wood. If you cut it right down you would not get any flowers next year. They could be interesting!
ribes sanguineum is most obvious . I got distracted by the berries. Ribes bracteosum should have stinky leaves. I've never seen a flowering currant fruit before but the fruit is supposed to taste awful. I suppose the best thing to do is wait until it flowers next year.
Hi everyone, flowering currants can indeed bear a dull, tasteless fruit on a large and vigorous plant (not quite as big as the one in Sue's picture though).
My plant was pruned with "extreme prejudice" because it was not productive.
It started as a self-setting seedling and grew very fast, so might have been a hybrid between the flowering and fruiting bushes in the neighbour's garden and mine. Just a wild theory, don't ask for any more proof please.
Oh there is a creeping Asian bramble underneath e but they are like yellowish raspberries.... Another surprise in my garden!!
If the fruit turns bright red in the near future you might have a Japanese/N. American Wineberry, which I discovered on taking over my allotment some years ago. The leaves look like raspberry leaves and turn yellow as they are fruiting. It is prickly and I cut out the obviously dead branches in spring and train the new growth up the side of my fruit cage. The fruits are very tart and usually it a race to pick the ripe ones before the birds, but they provide a change from raspberries.
Hi thanks for all your replies. Will keep an eye on bramble thanks Oldcompostheap.
looked at pictures I had from visiting house when buying and could not see any ribex pink flowers on the bush as my mum has loads of those so she would have recognised It. Wll wait nd see what next spring brings I guess. Thanks all again
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Oh there is a creeping Asian bramble underneath e but they are like yellowish raspberries.... Another surprise in my garden!!
Normally you take out the oldest third each year.most currants fruit on second year wood. If you cut it right down you would not get any flowers next year. They could be interesting!
Sounds like you have some rarities. Go slow until you are sure what you want to keep.
thanks fidgetbones x
Sounds like good old flowering currant! Hardly a rarity.
ribes sanguineum is most obvious . I got distracted by the berries. Ribes bracteosum should have stinky leaves. I've never seen a flowering currant fruit before but the fruit is supposed to taste awful. I suppose the best thing to do is wait until it flowers next year.
Hi everyone, flowering currants can indeed bear a dull, tasteless fruit on a large and vigorous plant (not quite as big as the one in Sue's picture though).
My plant was pruned with "extreme prejudice" because it was not productive.
It started as a self-setting seedling and grew very fast, so might have been a hybrid between the flowering and fruiting bushes in the neighbour's garden and mine. Just a wild theory, don't ask for any more proof please.
If the fruit turns bright red in the near future you might have a Japanese/N. American Wineberry, which I discovered on taking over my allotment some years ago. The leaves look like raspberry leaves and turn yellow as they are fruiting. It is prickly and I cut out the obviously dead branches in spring and train the new growth up the side of my fruit cage. The fruits are very tart and usually it a race to pick the ripe ones before the birds, but they provide a change from raspberries.
Hi thanks for all your replies. Will keep an eye on bramble thanks Oldcompostheap.
looked at pictures I had from visiting house when buying and could not see any ribex pink flowers on the bush as my mum has loads of those so she would have recognised It. Wll wait nd see what next spring brings I guess. Thanks all again
Let us know when it flowers please.