Description
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 Banana’ produces large, long berries with a lovely sweet flavour reminiscent of smoky strawberries. It is a mid season blooming variety. Good pollinators are ‘Boreal Beast’ and ‘Honey Gin’ but other mid season blooming cultivars will also do the trick. Haskaps need to be pollinated by a different clone, all of which will bear fruit. Fragrant, yellow, tubular, spring flowers attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Deer resistant.
