Lonicera caerulea Blue Pacific (Late Blooming)
Lonicera caerulea Blue Pacific offers a compact spreading form with light green foliage and large, light blue, flavourful fruit.
Lonicera caerulea, known as haskap or honeyberry, is a super hardy zone 2 shrubby honeysuckle that produces tasty cylindrical blue fruits high in vitamin C that taste like a combination of blueberry and raspberry that can be eaten fresh or used for pies, jams, jellies, and other desserts. Blue Pacific (‘F1-9-58’) offers a compact spreading form with light green foliage and large light blue, flavourful fruit. It will grow to 2-3 feet high and wide. Fragrant, yellow, tubular, spring flowers attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Plant with another late blooming variety for cross pollination. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Honeyberry - [Citrus Pre-Order]
Family: Caprifoliaceae (The Honeysuckle Family)
Zone Hardiness: 2-8
Light: Full Sun, Part Sun, Part Shade
Height: 2-4'
Width: 3-5'
Primary Bloom Colour: Yellow
Secondary Bloom Colour: White/Cream
Foliage Colour: Green
Class: Deciduous
Type: Shrub
Bloom Time: Spring
Soil Moisture: Average, Dry, Moist
Stem Colour:
Fragrance: Yes
Berries: Blue
Benefits: Hummingbirds Butterflies Bees
Deer Resistant: Yes
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Circumpolar and circumboreal often found near wetlands in heavy peat soils but also in mountains and along coasts.
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