Golden Currant

Golden Currant Shrub (Ribes odoratum) is a native fruiting shrub that will please your avian visitors with sweet-tart black berries in summer! Also known as Clove Currant and Missouri Currant, its delightfully pollinator-friendly trumpet-shaped flowers attract hummingbirds too! The berries are vital food for birds on female plants. Both female and male plants have darling blooms and will be ideal ornamental shrubs with their uniquely textured and shaped leaves!

The sunny, golden-yellow flowers appear in spring and emit a strong clove-like fragrance. Uniquely lobed, hand-shaped foliage is medium green to blue-green before turning yellow in fall. Soon the golden berries form in gleaming clusters and transform into red and then shiny black fruit. These Gooseberry relatives are bird-friendly food and shelter if you don't eat them all yourself!

Easy to grow Currants were an important food source for Plains Indians, The fruits can be eaten fresh or dried, mixed with dried buffalo meat or venison to make pemmican, or cooked into pies or jelly, they're rich in vitamins and antioxidants! Unlike many other Currants, Golden Currant shrubs are thornless for pain-free picking! Golden Current has both male and female flower parts and is self-fruitful. But it is always a good idea to have more than one plant to increase pollination and fruit set. Please note, that it may take a few years for the plants to develop enough wood to produce fruit.

Planting and Application:

Group several to ensure fruit, otherwise, a single specimen still puts on a brilliant gold spring show and provides refuge for birds and wildlife. Golden Currant forms thickets to form wildlife habitat, cover, nesting, and shelter as well as near water features and in moist soil locations. Even tolerating occasional flooding, plant in a Rain Garden, near the HVAC unit or where the gutters drain.

Plant a row of Golden Currant shrub borders and privacy, open woodland areas, or near patios for screening and birdwatching. Currants are fine-textured background shrubs and accents for native plant gardens and edible landscaping. Use as erosion control on hillsides and on hard-to-mow slopes. Good-sized plants when let grow to a full mature height of 6-8 feet and 6-8 feet wide, these plants can be maintained at any height that your edible landscape size allows!

• Wonderful Fine-Textured Foliage & Yellow Fall Color
• Golden Yellow Trumpet-Shaped Spring Flowers
• Edible Black Berries!
• Bird-Friendly & Hummingbirds
• Caterpillar Host Plant & Pollinator-Friendly!
• Self-Fruitful But Larger Harvests With Additional Golden Currants Planted Nearby

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Golden Currants are native to slopes, rocky bluffs, and streambanks throughout USDA growing zones 4 through 8. Similar to the Buffalo Currant in the west, Gold Currants thrive naturally in the Southeast and Great Plains and in full sun and partial shade. Plant in moderate moisture and average to rich well-drained soil, but can tolerate occasional standing water or moist conditions.

• Full Sun & Partial Shade
• Average to Moist Soil
• Well-Drained Soil
• Prune Late Winter
• Rabbit, Drought, Erosion, Clay Soil Tolerant

Edible fruit and immense wildlife benefits, the edible Golden Currant is a hardy native shrub for all! Order yours today at NatureHills.com and get your garden ready for wildlife to move in!