Topic: Pink Currants?

[Digeroo]

I have coveted a pink currant for some time.  They are quite expensive.  Are you worth it?

They seem to be considerably more expensive this year.  Drat.

However my white currant is very pink. 

[Jayb]

I haven't got one but the fruits do look very pretty. Their flavour is meant to be very good and not too acid, sounds lovely. As your white is already quite pink, you are the best judge but perhaps you already have a good pink and could look for a cheaper really white one! 

Perhaps a cutting from someone?

[markfield rover]

I remember Nigel Slater talking very highly of these and trying to source one too.

[antipodes]

I did not even know that a pink current existed! I have one (red)currant bush, it is now a full year in the ground so hopefully it will give me some fruit this year.

[Digeroo]

This is the white currant I already have and as the pic shows it is pink and was very pink.  Nothing white about it.  Seems odd it is called white Versailles.

http://www.bunkershillgardenshop.co.uk/soft_fruit/redcurrants_and_whitecurrants/whitecurrant_white_versailles

I think I might compromise and have another 'white' one.

[pumkinlover]

My white Versailles is white fruited but when  cooked it is red/pink. Milder flavour than redcurrant.

[Deb P]

I bought a couple of 'Gloire de Sablon' pink currants a couple of years ago, they were on offer from Ken Muir I think . I pruned them as cordens and bunged  the prunings in a pot overwinter, and most of them rooted with no trouble at all. I planted them out in row at the lottie last year and hopefully they will fruit this year. I got a few strings of  fruit  off of the original plants and they are a very attractive pale pink, the birds did not seem as attracted to them as my red plants....bonus!