Currant Plants

Currant plants – more info

Currants are a great perennial crop and with the right care, the bushes you find here will provide you with a tasty harvest for many years. If you’re looking for berries and more, check out our range of soft fruit. For handy currant tips, read our expert advice on growing currants or see the faqs below.

How can you store currants?

Because the fruit ripens all at once, and the bushes can be highly productive, it’s easy to find yourself with a glut of currants. Luckily, they are easily stored frozen or bottled. You can also turn them into jam, jellies or ice cream.

Which currant plants can be grown in a container?

Try Blackcurrant 'Summer Pearls Patio Black', which has been bred to reach just 1m high or, for a choice of fruit, Currant ‘Trio’ gives you redcurrant, blackcurrant and white currant on just one plant.

Which currants crop best?

'Jonkheer van Tets' is a heavy-cropping variety of redcurrant. ‘Ben Alder’ is one of the best cropping blackcurrants and ‘Blanka’ is the highest yielding white currant.