The postman brought two new plants this morning, so they’re going to be the second in my series on Forest Garden Plants – plants that would be at home in a temperate forest garden.
These two are honeyberries (AKA blue honeysuckles) – honeysuckles that produce edible (and apparently very tasty) fruit. The bushes are fully hardy, as they originate from Siberia. Apparently they’re also drought tolerant. They reach about 1 m in height, and crop from May onwards.
They’re supposed to be a bit like blueberries, but easier to grow – especially if you don’t have the acid soil that blueberries insist upon. You need a pair for pollination. One of mine is listed as Lonicera caerulea and the other as Lonicera caerulea kamtschatica – they’re from D. T. Brown’s. According to the blurb, they can be productive for up to 30 years.
Also available from Kore Wild Fruit Nursery and Cool Temperate, and there’s a report from PFAF, too.
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