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Hi ive seen a shrub with dark green floiage and long pink/red flowers, its a very pretty shrub but the flowers smell awful (to me anyway) almost like cat wee, can anyone tell me the name please my mum and I are racking our brains to remember the name.




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Could it be a flowering currant? (Ribes of some kind?) That's the only one that smells like that to me, anyway.

21 Feb, 2012

 

Agree Ojib that is all I can think of.

21 Feb, 2012

 

It looks nice but stinks it overhangs our garden from a neighbour

21 Feb, 2012

 

It'll definitely be flowering currant - Ribes sanguineum. My mum could never stand the smell and called it the "cats' pee plant" - it's very strong, and I can just about see the connection, but I quite like it

21 Feb, 2012

 

When does this plant flower?

21 Feb, 2012

 

Can't remember exactly - probably late springtime onwards.

21 Feb, 2012

 

I'm not asking you Gattina - I'm asking Charbradagpad when their plant flowers, lol! I know when Ribes flowers...

21 Feb, 2012

 

Sorry, Bamboo! (Stupid Gattina, getting carried away here)

22 Feb, 2012

 

Easily done on a thread, after a while, we get carried away responding to each other rather than the questioner...

22 Feb, 2012

 

Hi i noticed some of this stinky plant in a car park near us and when we went to the isle of man a few years ago it was rife there, i wouldnt have the shrub myself as it turns my stomach over, thanks for the replies

23 Feb, 2012

 

We do have but at the back of a deep border where it looks very effective. I certainly wouldn't want to stand next to it :-(

23 Feb, 2012

How do I say thanks?

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