A small shade tolerant shrub, native to Siberia and Japan. The honeyberry bush produces an elongated blueberry-like fruit a month or more before the earliest blueberries. Honeyberry fruits are sweet enough to enjoy fresh, with tiny edible seeds, and can be used in cooking, like blueberries. Honeyberries are produced in easy to harvest clusters.
Plant two different varieties that pollinate eachother for fruit production. Hardy to -40° F when fully dormant.
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A late blooming selection that pollinates with Blue Pagoda, Blue Velvet, Blue Moon, Blue Pacific and Kamchatka. Blue Sea™ Honeyberry is an unusually large, sweet and flavorful variety from Northern Japan. Zone 3-8.
Especially flavorful sweet blue fruits for fresh eating or drying. Medium sized bush is open, vigorous and productive. Shade tolerant in hotter climates. Early ripening. Ripens in June in the Pacific NW. Some what self-pollinating.
Large, long blueberry like fruit that ripens weeks before blueberries. Vigorous shrub, very productive. A University of Saskatchewan, Canada, introduction. Early blooming, Some what self-pollinating Zone 3-8
Hardy and sweet powdery blue berries on a vigorous shrub growing up to 6 feet tall, 3 feet in width. The Aurora Honeyberry has midseason bloom that will cover the pollination for Indigo Gem and Indigo Treat. Somewhat self-Pollinating,but will produce heavier with another variety. Zone 3-8
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