Ben Connan Blackcurrant Bushes (Ribes nigrum Ben Lomond)Ben Connan Blackcurrant Bushes (Ribes nigrum Ben Lomond)Ben Connan Blackcurrant Bushes (Ribes nigrum Ben Lomond)Ben Connan Blackcurrant Bushes (Ribes nigrum Ben Lomond)Ben Connan Blackcurrant Bushes (Ribes nigrum Ben Lomond)Ben Connan Blackcurrant Bareroot Plant

'Ben Connan' Blackcurrant Plants

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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 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. P9s benefit from extra care in their first year.

Bareroot
Bareroot
£7.99each
Qty
1-4
5 - 24
25 +
£
£ 7.99
£ 7.49
£ 5.99
£ 6.99
£ 5.99
3 Litre
Potted
£9.99each
Qty
1-2
3 +
£
£ 9.99
£ 8.99

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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 

What to expect

It's Spring Planting Season 2025

Pot grown plants on the nursery

Pot Grown & Plug Plants Delivered

From seedlings in jumbo plugs; Dahlia tubers; small P9 & 1 Litre plants; up to trees in big 15L pots
Expertly packed plants ready for delivery

Direct from the Nursery Value

We work with large batches of orders to save you money. Lead times for plants in stock are around 2 weeks
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No more broken plants in the post!

When your order is ready, it's expertly packed by Rodney and delivered by next day courier; if anything goes wrong, call Dan on 01963 359 444
Planting out potted plants in Spring

Spring is perfect planting time

Roots love the warm soil; the plant has time to settle in before mid-Summer heat
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