If you live in the Pacific Northwest and don't have these growing somewhere on your place, make sure you add some of these beautiful and carefree plants to your garden.
They are hardy as can be and in Spring, right now, they are attractive to the first returning hummingbirds of the season. What a treat!
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| These plants are about 6 feet tall now, at four years of age. |
Later in the fall, these bushes will be boiling with beautiful hungry Robins and Waxwing birds who eat the small berries.
Two seasons of effortless natural birdfeeding! I have tried the berries, they are not that exciting so they are strictly for the birds! The Red-flowering Currant plants shown in these pictures are about 4 years old. I purchased them for just
$1 each at my local
Resource Conservation District sale. They were purchased as small bare-root canes. I planted them in the cold of February and mulched them well. I
never watered them, not once. And look at them now! I did a bit of pruning this last winter to promote a vase-like shape to let sun (and birds) into the center of the shrub. That's all the care they have received, easy-peasy.
