Honeyberry Bundle – Late Blooming
The Honeyberry Bundle – Late Blooming 4 pack is perfect if you are having a hard time trying to decide which delicious varieties to plant. The bundle includes four of our favorites listed below
A very popular variety with Japanese Honeyberry growers, Blue Hokkaido ™ Honeyberry features an upright growth habit and very large, sweet-tart, crisp and flavorful, dark blue berries.
Blue Velvet Honeyberry ™ is distinguished by its compact, spreading form, attractive grayish-green, velvety foliage and its very large, sweet-tart and flavorful, medium-blue berries.
From the Russian Far East, Blue Pacific™ Honeyberry is a special variety prized for its attractive spreading form, light green foliage, and good crops of large, dark blue, tasty berries.
Widely grown in northern Japan, this valuable variety is prized for its abundant crops of large, flavorful, sweet, crisp and juicy fruit. An attractive, upright shrub, Blue Pagoda™ Honeyberry grows 4-5 ft. in height.
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Honeyberries are a very hardy and unique small shrub related to Honeysuckle but with sweet and tasty fruit. Native to Eastern Siberia, the Russian Far East, and Northern Japan, they are valued for their tasty, blueberry-like fruit. They are also extremely early ripening, often two weeks before strawberries. And finally, they are exceptionally hardy handling temperatures to minus 40 degrees F., or below. They are great for fresh eating, juicing, and preserves.
Late Blooming Honeyberry Varieties
These varieties bloom up to 2 months later in the NW region than the early blooming varieties. Later blooming means that more bees and other insects are available for pollination and fruit set is significantly better. These varieties are also good for east of the Cascade Mountains, and other colder regions of the US.