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Ben Connan Blackcurrant Bushes (Ribes nigrum Ben Lomond)

'Ben Connan' Blackcurrant Plants

Ribes nigrum 'Ben Connan'

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Fruit: Sweet. Heavy crops to 3.5kg
Uses: Ideal for Cooking, Fresh
Picking: July-August
Height x Spread: 1-1.5m x 1-1.5m
Spacing: 1.5m
Self-fertile & Frost resistant
RHS Award of Garden Merit

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Bareroot

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How are they measured?

Bareroot soft fruit is generally cut back hard before delivery to encourage strong regrowth from the base.

Pot sizes are measured by their volume in litres, except for the smallest size, 9cm / p9 pots, which are roughly half a litre.

3 Litre

Potted

£9.99each

Qty

1-2

3 +

£ 9.99

£ 8.99

Available to order

Despatched in May

Bareroot

£7.99each

Qty

1-4

5 - 24

25 +

£ 7.99

£ 7.49

£ 5.99

£ 6.99

£ 5.99

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Description

Ben Connan Blackcurrant Bushes

Ben Connan blackcurrants are the earliest to ripen. It produces large yields of dark fruit on short clusters of strings so make picking easy. They taste outstanding and Ben Connan has the added virtues of growing as a tidy bush and being relatively disease free.

As with all currants, Ben Connan Blackcurrants should be grown with 1.40 metres between plants in the row and 1.5 metres between rows.

Browse our variety of currant plants or see our full range of soft fruit bushes.

Ben Connan is a cross between Ben Lomond and Ben Sarek