Ribes sanguineum ‘White Icicle’
Flowering currants, Ribes sanguineum, are a March staple. On sunny spring mornings, dripping with their pendent flower clusters, these shrubs are a charming sight. Most common are the vibrant rose-pink selections, such as ‘Pulborough Scarlet’ and ‘King Edward VII’, which are a familiar sight in many a front garden, often grown in tandem with that other ubiquitous spring stalwart: forsythia.
If you’d rather ring the changes or prefer to grow something that’s a little more subtle, consider one of the paler flowered currants such as ‘Poky’s Pink’, with its baby-pink blooms, or ‘Tydeman’s White’, which is actually a very pale shade of pink rather than white. For pure white flowers, look no further than ‘White Icicle’. Combined with the newly emerging grass-green leaves, the shrub in…