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  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] want clove-currant plants?
  • Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:06:21 +0000

I sprouted some seeds of my clove-currant last year, and this year the plants grew big enough to show that they mostly have possibly even more severe white pine blister rust than their parent plant. They are junk for me, but I thought I should offer them to the list before I compost them! If you don't have any white pines around, these would be a decent landscape shrub. Wonderful fragrance in early spring.

I don't know if these are Ribes aureum or odoratum, but could try to determine. Parent plant is about 6' tall, with branches tending to lean over even without fruit weight. It suckers, and I think would form a thicket if not confined by mowing or driveways or etc. It makes worthwhile crops maybe once in 10 years; fruit is pleasant but I don't miss it in the off years. The parent plant was a sucker from a long-neglected planting by an old house foundation, early 1900s, so it is hardy for s.WI zone 4. Survives in dry sand but performs better in decent soil with extra water off a shed roof.

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