redcurrantbush

I am Ribes ribrum of the gooseberry family, a redcurrant bush and I provide shelter to blackbirds (there is one in my avatar) and other birdies, as well as food for them and my owner/gardener (she is also a Postcrosser).

Postcards: my preferences are recipe postcards to help my owner appreciate & utilise me and my botanical neighbours. My owner/gardener would also be pleased with postcards of landscapes, buildings, plants, animals, famous people, UNESCO World Heritage Sites..... We register every postcard we receive. If it hasn't been registered, it hasn't been received yet.

My owner/gardener speaks English, and can understand Welsh, and some German. She will read the postcards to me (talking to us plants does help us! - remember photosynthesis - there is more carbon dioxide in the air people breath out than in the air people breathe in. During photosynthesis, I need carbon dioxide and water to make sugar and oxygen).

October 2023 - World Postcard Day. Windy day. Leaves are starting to turn brown..

August 2013 - Most of my fruits have been eaten by the blackbirds. They don't seem to like the neighbouring whitecurrants though.

May 2012 - Most fruit/currants have set, though they are not yet ripe.

March 2012 - My leaves are coming out of their buds. Spring is here.

December 2011 - Winter, I am asleep!

September 2011 - Autumn has arrived. My leaves are turning colour...

July 2011 - The birds have fed on my sibling currant bushes on an allotment. Naughty birdies not letting my gardener have any!

June 2011 - My fruit have turned red and my gardener has picked some (and so have the birdies).

April 2011 - Some fruit/currants have set, though they are still small and green. I still have many flowers.

March 2011 - My leaf buds are starting to burst. Spring is here. A daffodil beneath me is in flower.

July 2010 - My owner harvested some of my redcurrants. The birds also ate some of the fruit.

June 2010 - My currants are starting to ripen, and some are almost all red.

May 2010 - I have many green currants on me. They are not yet ripe.

April 2010 - I have many flowers open, and the nice busy bumblebees have been visiting. Hopefully, I will bear lots of fruit.

March 2010 - I have been dormant for the winter and now, as spring is making an appearance, I have new buds starting to burst into leaf.