Identify these two please

Cul a cnoic

Seen these growing behind an old house at the weekend and was wondering if anyone knew what they were.

First one:




Second one:




Thanks for looking.

foxinsox

1st one is: brain on go slow? know it but name won't come to me..


2nd one: Ribes sanguineum

wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribes_sanguineum

I love this, great bit of colour in the garden. Easy peasy to grow from cuttings, just stick sticks in the ground and away she goes.

lottpaul

The first is kerria japonica
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/442.shtml

the second is the flowering currant, ribes sanguineum
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/3288.shtml

There are several species of flowering currant but i can't be sure which you have here.

Best of luck.

Cul a cnoic

foxinsox wrote: »

1st one is: brain on go slow? know it but name won't come to me..


2nd one: Ribes sanguineum

wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribes_sanguineum

I love this, great bit of colour in the garden. Easy peasy to grow from cuttings, just stick sticks in the ground and away she goes.

lottpaul wrote: »

The first is kerria japonica
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/442.shtml

the second is the flowering currant, ribes sanguineum
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/3288.shtml

There are several species of flowering currant but i can't be sure which you have here.

Best of luck.

Top marks to both of you with the fast answers, very much appreciated. Unfortunately they are not in my garden but behind an old house I was passing at the weekend and the colours caught my eye.

After reading your links above, I also had a search for Ribes sanguineum and got the following very interesting story.


A million front gardens will soon be starting to show the pink flowers of the flowering currant and it is so common that we tend to take it for granted. But its discovery by David Douglas in 1825 in what is now the US state of Oregon is part of an epic and grisly botanical tale.

If anyone is the model for Indiana Jones, it is Douglas. The Scottish botanist crossed snowy mountains, rivers and heat-baked prairies in the process of discovering over 200 species, including the Douglas fir and Mahonia aquifolium.

He had been dispatched by the newly founded Royal Horticultural Society to collect plants for their gardens in Chiswick.

After a number of trips, each involving clashes with native Americans, Douglas came to a ghastly end. He fell into a pit set to trap wild cattle and was gored to death by an animal already captured.

So behind the humble and frankly rather ill-smelling flowering currant is a story of bravery and dreadful death.

Thanks again