Translucent white currants are fun to grow with kids.

Red and white currants make bushes about 5ft tall and wide.

Red or white currants can be left on their stalks.)

Red and white currants need different treatment because they fruit on spurs made on the old wood.

Reduce these stems on red-and white currants to within three buds of the base.

The white currant is also a cultivar of Ribes rubrum.

Gooseberries and red and white currants are all pruned in the same way.

The berries look like dull pearls or white currants, blue-white rather than creamy green.

Gooseberries and red- and white currants can be pruned now or in spring.

The white currant ‘White Versailles’ has pearly, large fruits.

Common aroma notes associated with Malvasia include peaches, apricots and white currants.

Gooseberries and red and white currants can now be pruned if this was not done during the winter.

Also attacks red and white currants and gooseberries.

Other common fruits resulting from a sport mutation are the red Anjou pear and the white currant.

By turns, there's toast and honey, tea, apricot, peach and white currants.

Red and white currants are as popular with common garden birds, such as blackbirds, as with us.

At my parents’ house in Birmingham, much of their small garden is given over to growing redcurrants, blackcurrants, white currants, raspberries, and loganberries.

White Versailles A large white currant in July.

We have early, mid and late raspberries, black, red and white currants, gooseberries and blackberries.

Red and white currants here in rows, berries like glass beads, gooseberries with a ripeness the colour of rust on their green cheeks.

The albino variant of redcurrant, often referred to as white currant, has the same tart flavour but with greater sweetness.

In summer use fresh red or white currants; in autumn pick wild rowan or cloudberries and crush to add to the sauce.

And finally, pretty white currants floating in a mouth-watering gooseberry and elderflower jelly, set with agar.

Red and white currants grow well in semi-shade and should be pruned in March, cutting back the oldest wood by half.