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Golden Currant (Wholesale Bundles) | Spring 2027
$221.00
Price breaks
| Bundles in your cart | Per bundle | Per plant |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 bundles | $221.00 | $8.84 |
| 4 to 11 bundles | $187.85 | $7.51 |
| 12 to 23 bundles | $165.75 | $6.63 |
| 24 bundles and up | $143.65 | $5.75 |
40 bundles or more? Email us for a quote.
Breaks count every Farm & Ranch bundle in your cart, any mix of plants.
Farm & Ranch bundles are already priced wholesale, so SAVE discount codes don't apply to them.
Reliable shipping
Only need a few? This page is wholesale, sold by the bundle. For smaller numbers, order our Golden Currant (Bundle of 3).
At a glance: Golden Currant is a drought tough native shrub with edible fruit, rated hardy to zone 2 in our ratings (winters to -50°F). Ships bare root. Sold here at wholesale prices, by the bundle.
| Also called | Clove currant, buffalo currant (Ribes odoratum, often treated as Ribes aureum var. villosum) |
|---|---|
| Hardy to | Zone 2 on the MFTC modified cold hardiness scale (-50°F). Grows in zones 2 to 8. A bare number means the whole of zone 2, colder half included. Find your zone with our cold hardiness calculator. |
| Mature size | 4 to 5 ft tall, slowly suckering |
| Pollination | Partially self-fertile. Fruits better with several plants. |
| Spacing | 3 to 5 ft apart in the row. |
| Good for | Low outside row of a shelterbelt, wildlife and pollinator plantings, dry banks, fresh fruit and jelly |
| Deer | Seldom badly damaged by deer. |
| What you get | Dormant bare root seedlings. 10-24 in. and 2-3 ft. sizes come 25 plants to a bundle, and the 3 ft.+ size comes 20 to a bundle. Shipped from Missoula, or picked up in Missoula, in spring 2027. |
| Wholesale terms | Sold by the bundle. Mix any Farm & Ranch plants to reach a price break at 4, 12 and 24 bundles. 40 bundles or more, email us for a quote. |
Overview
Golden currant is one of the first shrubs to bloom, with yellow, clove scented flowers that early bees and hummingbirds go straight to.
Origin & History
This is the Great Plains form of golden currant, native from the Dakotas south. Its close relative grows wild across Montana.
Fruit & Uses
Fruit ripens from green through yellow and red, most often to black or dark purple, though some seedlings stay orange or red. It's the best tasting of the native currants, and it handles dry ground far better than garden currants.
Growth Habit
Arching, thornless shrub, 4 to 5 ft, with red fall color.
Spacing
Plant 3 to 5 ft apart. A bundle of 25 covers 75 to 125 ft of row, a bundle of 20 covers 60 to 100 ft.
Pollination
Bee-pollinated and partly self-fertile.
Cold hardiness
We rate golden currant to zone 2, winters to -50°F.
How wholesale orders work
- Bundles can't be split. Sizes under 3 ft. come 25 to a bundle, 3 ft. and taller come 20 to a bundle.
- Price breaks count every Farm & Ranch bundle in your cart, any mix of plants. 4 bundles, 12 bundles and 24 bundles each drop the price on all of them. The discount shows up in your cart on its own.
- Add to your order any time before it ships. Same shipping address, and the bundles count together toward the next price break.
- No cancellations after February 1. Cancel part of an order before then and the rest is priced at the break it still earns.
- If we come up short on a plant, you keep the price break you paid for and we refund the bundles we couldn't send.
- Our dead plant guarantee covers these the same as everything else we sell. A plant that never leafs out its first season gets a credit code for what you paid for it plus its share of the shipping. We can't break a bundle, so credit goes toward a future order, not loose replacement plants.
- Planting 40 bundles or more? Email us for a quote.
Shipping restrictions: We cannot ship Golden Currant to Delaware, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina or Rhode Island, where it is banned, left off the approved list or needs a state permit because currants carry white pine blister rust. Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey and West Virginia ban currants in certain counties or towns, so we can only ship to the parts of those states that allow them. Check your own state and county list before planting.
Questions we get about Golden Currant
How cold hardy is Golden Currant?
We rate it hardy to zone 2, which means winters down to about -50°F.
How far apart do I plant Golden Currant?
3 to 5 ft apart in a row.
What arrives, and when does it ship?
Dormant bare root seedlings by the bundle, shipped from Missoula, or picked up in Missoula, in spring 2027. Orders are paid in full at checkout. Our dead plant guarantee covers them the same as everything else we sell. A plant that never leafs out its first season gets a credit code for what you paid for it plus its share of the shipping.
Photos: “Grossulariaceae- Ribes aureum (Golden Currant) - 37366172626” by Kristof Zyskowski & Yulia Bereshpolova, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY 2.0.