Ribes sanguineum 'Albescens'

An extract from Beth Chatto's Shade Garden book. 'For me the scent of flowering currant, Ribes sanguineum 'Albescens', is part of the awakening garden. I like to pick long, curving branches just as the flower buds begin to swell. I bruise the stem ends, put them into a large jug with a few pieces of Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae and stand it on a low table by a glass door opening on to my outdoor sitting area'.