Native to Northern Europe and Asia, the BLACKCURRANT flowers in spring. This fruit shrub is a perennial with deciduous foliage that reaches up to 1.5 m high at maturity. Its fruits are edible. Hardy, it withstands temperatures below 0 ° C. It likes a part-sun exposure (it fears the full sun of the South) and an ordinary soil, rich in humus, drained with neutral acidity. A friend of the fruit garden, it is planted in spring and autumn.