Ribes viburnifolium - Flickr - peganum

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Description: You know how sometimes something you've had hanging around for years that you'd almost forgotten about comes to light and takes you by surprise? I picked up a bit of this in what was the old Probus Demonstration Garden down in Devon when I first began gardening when I was about 23 (about 25 years ago) I think I sneaked a shoot (one very like the one coming towards us in this picture) into my bag and kept it in a plastic bag for the rest of the week's camping. I knew very little about plants and nothing about propagation but it nevertheless rooted when I got home and just about survived for years in my parent's garden in Shoreham, Sussex, where luckily a few years ago I took another cutting before it finally gave up the ghost. I now have two of them - one growing very slowly against the south west wall here and this one that has been kept in the greenhouse. Date: 23 March 2011, 09:42. Source: Ribes viburnifolium. Author: peganum from Small Dole, England.