![Ribes laurifolium](https://live.staticflickr.com/3299/3582828947_4faa05d7a5_b.jpg)
Another winter flowering shrub and one of my favourites. Nothing like the blackcurrants to which it is related, this is a low, gnarly, rather picturesque evergreen, producing dangling trails of pale greenish yellow flowers from red bracts in earliest spring.
![Ribes laurifolium Amy Doncaster](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49456391911_83227d0a95_b.jpg)
Easy-going but probably best with some shade from deciduous trees and shrubs. Grow Cyclamen and Scillas through it.
Male and female plants are available.
![Ribes laurifolium Amy Doncaster (male)](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49509355538_50aea53cab_b.jpg)
The common male form is known, confusingly, as Amy Doncaster and has more rounded open flowers
£14
![Ribes laurifolium female](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49509356303_aa4d7888be_b.jpg)
The female form has denser clusters of flowers with conspicuous bracts. Black berries are occasionally produced
£14
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