Alpine Currant - Green Mound

Can also be massed in the shrub border and effective in shady woodland areas. It is a tough and hardy dwarf shrub that adapts well to urban conditions and makes an excellent small hedge. Green Mound is a male cultivar which obviously bears no fruit. It is very winter hardy. Green Mound is a mounding, compact, dense, spineless, deciduous shrub that grows to 3-4 feet tall and 2-3 feet wide. Green Mound Alpine Currant, Ribes alpinum 'Green Mound', leafs out in early spring and has clean, dark green foliage throughout the summer. It creates a beautiful low maintenance hedge with its disease resistant foliage. Grow this plant in sun or shade with normal to moist soil. The species is a dioecious shrub which requires both male and female plants for fruit production (an inedible, scarlet berry). ... additional info