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Hardiness: USDA Zone 3b: to -37.2 °C (-35 °F) USDA Zone 4a: to -34.4 °C (-30 °F) USDA Zone 4b: to -31.6 °C (-25 °F) USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8 °C (-20 °F) USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1 °C (-15 °F) USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 °C (-10 °F) USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 °C (-5 °F) USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F) USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F) USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F) USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
On Sep 25, 2006, Magpye from NW Qtr, AR (Zone 6a) wrote:
The fragrant yellow flowers have top blue-green leaves that turn yellow in the fall.
This adaptable plant is good in sun or shade and is hardy in Zones 4 to 6 and sometimes 7.
Avoid using this plant near white pines, since it is an alternate host of the deadly disease .. white pine blister rust.
On Jul 1, 2003, Toxicodendron from Piedmont, MO (Zone 6a) wrote:
I grow this wonderful clove-scented plant in Southeast Missouri, where it's fragrance drifts across the yard in early spring. It has never set any fruit for some reason.
It has suckered into a large thicket that I contain by mowing. The plant I have came from my husband's grandmother's house near Mingo National Wildlife Area and she told me it sprouted from a dropped bird seed. It is one of my all-time favorite plants for fragrance. I had to keep it watered when I first transplanted it back in 1988, but I never need to water it anymore, no matter how dry it gets here in August. It is growing on the northern exposure of a wooded area, and does not sucker back into the shade, only out toward the sun. I have no insect or disease problems with it at all.
On May 17, 2003, gonedutch from Fairport, NY wrote:
The ribes species was banned from import to the US for many decades because it was linked to causing pest infestations to indigenous firs and pines. Now that the ban has been lifted we can again enjoy the currant and gooseberry fruits for jams and wines, or for just eating off the bush. Watch out for those barbs! Suggestion: use a fork to harvest small currants.
And if you like the wonderful fragrance of the Clove Currant you'll love its delicious bronze gooseberry fruit.
On Apr 13, 2003, philomel from Termes d'Armagnac
(France) (Zone 8a) wrote:
This plant scents the air around it for quite a distance over a fairly long flowering season in the spring. It is a little untidy in habit, but responds well to trimming.
It has the added bonus of attractive autumn leaf colour.
It grows away well once established in my heavy clay soil in Kent UK
On Mar 19, 2003, CanadaGoose from Oakville, ON (Zone 5b) wrote:
Very early flowering shrub, light yellow flowers with intense perfume. Makes an effective hedging plant.
Regional...
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
, Deer, Arkansas Piedmont, Missouri Lincoln, Nebraska Fairport, New York Belfield, North Dakota Klamath Falls, Oregon Albion, Pennsylvania Spokane, Washington
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