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.