Alpenjohannisbeere

Landscape Uses:Erosion control, Foundation, Ground cover, Massing, Rock garden, Seashore. Easily grown in a moisture retentive but well-drained loamy soil of at least moderate quality. This species succeeds on poor soils. Does well in shade though it does not fruit so well in such a position. A very hardy plant, tolerating temperatures down to about -25°c. A number of named varieties have been developed for their ornamental value. The flowers are sweetly fragrant. Plants are dioecious. At least one male plant must be grown in the vicinity of up to 5 females if fruit is required. Plants can harbour a stage of white pine blister rust, so should not be grown in the vicinity of pine trees. Plants in this genus are notably susceptible to honey fungus. Special Features: Not North American native, Inconspicuous flowers or blooms.

Edible Parts: Fruit Edible Uses: Fruit - raw or cooked. Sweet and not very acid, but less palatable than R. rubrum, the red currant. An insipid fruit, it is not palatable. The only fruits we have eaten have been good size red currants with a fair flavour[K]. The fruit is about 5mm in diameter and can be freely borne when male and female plants are grown[K].

Hedge Hedge The cultivar 'Green Mound' makes a good dwarf hedge. Plants can be grown as a tall ground cover when spaced about 2 metres apart each way. The cultivars 'Aureum' and 'Pumilum' are smaller growing and should be spaced about 1 metre apart.

Heimisch: Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, DK, Denmark, England (N-England, Wales [I], Scotland [I], Outer Hebrides [I]); Ireland [I] (Northern Ireland [I]); Denmark; Norway; Sweden; Finland; Luxembourg [I]; Germany (Brandenburg, Berlin [I], Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Hessen [I], Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein [I], Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen); Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Austria; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Hungary; Spain (mountains); Andorra; France; Italy; Slovenia; Croatia; Bosnia & Hercegovina; Montenegro; Serbia; Kosovo; North Macedonia; Albania; Romania; Bulgaria; Greece (rare mountains of N-Greece, south to Mt. Agrafa); Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Belarus; C-European Russia; N-European Russia; Morocco; Northern Caucasus; Georgia [Caucasus]; Turkey (NE-Anatolia); Iran (N-Iran); USA [I] (Michigan [I]), FI, Finland, France, Germany, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Morocco, NO, NW. Balkan Pen., New Brunswick, North America, North Caucasus, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Poland, Romania, SE, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Ukraine, conterminous 48 United States Eingeführt: BY, Belgium, Brussels-Capital Region, CA, Central European Russia, Denmark, Flemish Region, France, Great Britain, Ireland, NL, Netherlands, Norway, Ontario, SE, The Netherlands, Walloon Region