Honeyberry 'Honey Bee'

Lonicera caerulea 'Honey Bee'

Other Names:  Honey Bee, Sweetberry Honeysuckle, Haskap

Description:

A fast growing, hardy shrub with clean foliage and delicious, bluish-purple edible berries in early summer; medium sized with a bushy habit; selected for larger fruit and high yields, must have another honeyberry variety for cross pollination.

Edible Qualities

Honeybee® Honeyberry is a medium-sized shrub that is typically grown for its edible qualities, although it does have ornamental merits as well. It produces large deep purple round berries with powder blue overtones which are usually ready for picking in early summer. The berries have a sweet taste and a fleshy texture.

The berries are most often used in the following ways:

• Fresh Eating
• Preserves
• Juice-Making
• Wine-Making

Honeybee® Honeyberry features subtle buttery yellow flowers along the branches from late winter to early spring. It has green deciduous foliage. The narrow leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color. It features an abundance of magnificent deep purple berries with powder blue overtones from late spring to early summer.

This is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.