Ribes curvatum Brookgreen Gardens the plant carries dark green

the plant carries dark green foliage with a purplish cast and tends to be tardily deciduous

best appreciated up close

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in full sun and well-drained soil of almost any texture

Ribes curvatum Brookgreen Gardens the plant carries dark greenGranite gooseberry is a rare native shrub of the rocky, granitic soils of the Southeast, turning up in widely scattered localities from Georgia to Texas. A low, deciduous plant of two to four feet, the arching branches root where they touch the ground and knit slowly into colonies, and the small, three lobed leaves and purple, red spined stems give the shrub a fine, distinctive texture. The real charm is the bloom. In spring, small but conspicuous