Ribes rubrum (BÍLÝ/WHITE) white currant
size/type
medium-sized shrub,medium-sized shrub
usual height
1-2m
usual width
1-1,5m
leaves
deciduous broadleaf
colour of leaves
location
full to partial sun
USDA zone (lowest)
5 (down to -29°C)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Currant is a well-known fruit cultivated mostly in Europe. It produces racemes with red or white berries in summer. It is grown as a wide bush or trained into a single stem or various other shapes which may make picking up easier. Very attractive are flat espaliers.
Description of the plant:
VARIETIESOrion is a Czech variety of white currant. It produces long racemes of medium sized berries. They are sweet and juicy, and mature from midsummer. Shrubs are upright and strong. Very resistant to fungi diseases.
Weisse aus Jüterborg is a white currant variety with medium long racemes of large berries. The taste is very sweet and only a little sour. Mid season.
White Hollander is a midseason white currant variety with long racemes of sweet berries. They are medium-sized and mature from late July. Reliable cropper and disease resistant.
Witte Parel is a Dutch variety of white currant with sweet berries. They are firm, born on long racemes and can be stored for a long time in the fridge or deep frozen. The shrub is upright, densely branched.
Weisse Versailles is a German variety of white currant with long clusters of sweet and tasty berries. They ripen from mid July until late August. Shrubs are not large, they reach about 1.5m tall and wide.
Zitavia is a white currant with long racemes of mid-sized, sweet fruit that matures early in the season. The crop is regular and profuse on a strong growing shrub resistant to common diseases.
CULTIVATION
It can take almost any soil but for best crop use fertile, moist but well-drained soil in full sun or part shade. In late spring and early summer aphids may be a problem – treat the plant without delay but beware that fruit ripens already in mid-summer so biological weapons are suggested. Pruning is possible in late winter. Canes older than 3 years should be removed to keep the plant juvenile. Usually small plants already set fruit but the best crop can be expected in the third year from planting. Fully hardy.
Last update 12-02-2011; 03-02-2019
SIZES and PRICES
half-standard
height of stem 60 cm, Lubawa růžový
229 Kč
half-standard
height of stem 60 cm, Weisse Versailles bílý
229 Kč
shrub
Blanka bílý
319 Kč
shrub
Weisse Versailles bílý
319 Kč
shrub
Witte Holander bílý
319 Kč
shrub
Zitavia bílý
319 Kč
Witte Parel bílý
219 Kč
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GLOSSARY
- STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
- DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
- EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
- STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
- HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
- SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
- HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
- FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
- GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
