Perhaps a currant bush AND a new plant?

Gers

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I've got a large bush which, until about a month ago was just wood. Now it's got leaves and is starting to produce the berries as in the picture. There's not many of them and they smell a bit like blackcurrants.

Is this a blackcurrant bush?

If it is it won't be producing many berries this year as it wasn't cut right back last year.

arbrighton

My blackcurrants ripened already even after the bush was dug up and moved.

But the leaves etc do look like a currant

Farway

Could be gooseberry, but currant seems more likely

Gers

Thanks - I can't remember it blossoming, it was just a bunch of branches and then full of leaves. I only noticed the 'berries' at the weekend.

Think I'll have to do a mega-prune in autumn and see next year what it turns into.

Every day another new surprise in my new garden.

zygurat789

Gers wrote: »

If it is it won't be producing many berries this year as it wasn't cut right back last year.

Blackcurrants and redcurrants are pruned differently. With a blackcurrant you should take out the older stems from the ground and leave the newer ones alone.
Have you cut this hard back in previous years, maybe this is why it hasn't fruited.

peter_the_piper

The colours and shape of the fruit would make me think Gooseberry

torbrex

Blackcurrant will produce fruit next year on this years wood so don't prune too much if you want fruit.

RAS

The flowers on currants are often green so not very noticeable. Gooseberries have thorns/prickles and flower on the previous years wood.

However I suspect that it is a flowering currant not a black currant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribes_sanguineum

Gers

peter_the_piper wrote: »

The colours and shape of the fruit would make me think Gooseberry

Thanks - I hope not as I'm not at all fond of gooseberry.

torbrex wrote: »

Blackcurrant will produce fruit next year on this years wood so don't prune too much if you want fruit.

Didn't prune last year - it's a 'new to me' garden' and so can't really tell which is new wood or old wood,

RAS wrote: »

The flowers on currants are often green so not very noticeable. Gooseberries have thorns/prickles and flower on the previous years wood.

However I suspect that it is a flowering currant not a black currant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribes_sanguineum

There are no thorns or prickles, and not enough flowers for me to notice.

Thanks for all the replies. I will watch and wait to see what the other few berries develop into. The leaves don't immediately say 'blackcurrant' to me but then I'm such a novice!

REEN

I think RAS is right. My flowering currant has fruit just like that.

theoretica

Not gooseberry - they don't have fruit in strings like that. It will be some form of currant. The slightly hairy fruit makes me think the flowering currant suggestion is right.

Not many fruit could mean there weren't many flowers, so easier to miss.