Whitecurrant 'Versailles'
Ribes rubrum 'Versailles'
A whitecurrant planted by the pond (not a pond plant). Sweet, translucent pale berries in summer; the label also marks it as an RHS Plant for Pollinators. Planted this spring.
Pruning: whitecurrants fruit on older wood, so treat them like redcurrants. In winter, keep an open goblet shape of 8 to 10 main stems, and shorten this year's side shoots to one or two buds. Net the fruit in early summer or the birds will beat you to it.
- Common name
- Whitecurrant 'Versailles'
- Section
- Fruit, veg & herbs
- Spot
- Garden
- Soil
- Garden soil with gravel mulch
- Options
Potential
A fruiting bush for an edible garden or generous container, with propagation offering scope for further plants.
- From
- A local independent garden centre, 2026
- Age
- About 3 years
- Next repot
- Not needed: it's in the ground
- Edible
- ✅ Yes: Whitecurrants, sweeter than they look.
- Hardy
- ✅ Fully
- Garden-centre price
- about £14
Did you know?
Whitecurrants aren't a separate fruit: they're a pale form of the redcurrant.
Care & updates
- What to expect
- Flowering and cropping depend on maturity, variety, pollination and growing conditions. First useful harvests may take several seasons. Flowers Apr–May.
- Feeding
- Every 28 days, Mar–Jul, with High-potash fruit feed
- Observation
Leaves turning yellow and dropping for autumn, which is normal. Several upright stems from a short woody base, planted in the gravel beside the pond.
🎮
Dizzy spends the whole game hunting down fruit. Berries very much included.
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