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.

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 ...

We tend to think of currants as being from Europe, Russia or Eastern North America. The pink flowering currant, Ribes sanguineum glutinosum, is actually endemic to canyons and riparian sites of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Santa could hardly bring a better gift to a Marin gardener: flowers that bloom in winter and early spring. Long, cascading or fuchsia-like flowers in, red, pink, yellow or white loved by native bees ...

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 ...

Oregon State University has developed a flowering currant called Oregon Snowflake, a low-growing shrub that is smaller than other currants. (Ryan Contreras) If you don't have much space to plant ...

One of our earliest spring flowers, this shrub isn’t easily overlooked. Gently drooping clusters of dark pink, tubular flowers that erupt just ahead of the wide-oval, bluntly-notched leaves are the ...

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) ...