A very high yielding mid-season variety, widely grown commercially for juice production due to very high yield & content of Vitamin C. The currants are small and ripe fruit will only hang on the bush for a limited time, but the fruit quality is excellent, with high colour stability. High level of disease resistance, particularly to foliar problems. Late flowering and so escapes the late spring frosts. Fairly vigorous upright growth habit.

A small shrub that is typically grown for its edible qualities. It produces clusters of black round berries which are usually ready for picking from mid to late summer. The berries have a tart taste and a juicy texture and are most often used for fresh eating.

Variety with very large fruit with high juice content. Bursting with flavour, great for snacking puddings jams and juices. Reliable cropper resistant to mildew and rust. Good for kitchen and cottage gardens. Needs to be in sunny or semi shade position. 

Has an award of the RHS Award of Garden Merit variety, known for its heavy cropping.
Easy to grow plant, that will quickly establish once planted. Plant size: height up to 120cm (47.2in) and spread up to 120cm (47.2in). Hardy shrub plant, ideal for kitchen or wildlife gardens. Needs to be in full sun position.

A compact blackcurrant for culinary or dessert use, to 1.5m in height. Flowers insignificant, pale green; fruit black, mid season. Ribes can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs, sometimes spiny, with simple, usually palmately lobed leaves and small tubular or bell-shaped, solitary or racemose flowers borne in spring or summer, followed by juicy, sometimes edible berries

One of the most popular blackcurrant varieties, easy to grow. The berries are high in vitamin C content and can be eaten fresh, in smoothies or used within cooking for pies and jams. Produces heavy crops of fruit year after year. Good for patio or kitchen garden. To ensure optimum yield and quality of berries, it needs to be planted in a sunny, preferably south-facing position. Plant between late autumn and early spring and harvest during April and May for maximum sweetness of taste. Two-year-old, three shoots+ plants supplied.

Noted for its high fruit quality and high content of vitamin C, Ribes nigrum Ben Lomond is a compact black currant for culinary or dessert use. The blossoms are followed by a heavy crop of drooping clusters of large, edible, shiny black currants which ripen evenly in early-mid summer.

The berries of this variety are slightly smaller than average, but yet the yield is slightly above average. They ripen to a dark purple/black colour in early August. Taste is slightly tart and full-flavoured, not ideal for eating from the bush but excellent for all cooking uses.
Plants grow to a height and spread of 1.2m (4ft) with an upright growth form. As with all blackcurrants, Ben Tirran is self-fertile and will produce a crop if grown alone.