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Honeyberry Lonicera 'Balalaika'

A fascinating new addition to your fruit garden
Just £9.99
1 x 9cm Pot - SKU: 310029
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Key Features

  • Grow your own crops of truly delicious fruits - Honeyberry plants offer year-round interest
  • Dark blue and unique elongated fruits grow in abundance from this summer, returning year on year with bigger and better displays
  • The sweet, juicy fruits have a remarkable flavour very similar to blackberries, with a hint of kiwi
  • Easy to grow, self-fertile and winter hardy, ideal for even less experienced gardeners to grow
  • Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting 
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Description

Plucking deliciously sweet fruits directly from your garden is one of the most satisfying outcomes from gardening, and this is your chance to pick bountiful crops of unique summer superfruits.

This amazing Honeyberry ‘Balalaika’ is a type of honeysuckle, which produces some of the healthiest fruits around, and thankfully they also taste incredible! 

The juicy fruits boast a melt-in-the-mouth flavour with the sweetness of blackberries, but mixed with a subtle hint of kiwi. They are rich in those all-important super-healthy vitamins and minerals and contain even more antioxidants than most varieties of blueberries.

A wonderful addition to, or base for, sauces, puddings, jams, jellies and desserts, or you can cheekily pick them straight from the bush for a yummy and healthy afternoon snack.

These interesting additions to your fruit garden are self-fertile, so will produce their dark-blue, elongated fruits in abundance without the need of being planted alongside other berry varieities. Keep the plant healthy and be treated to returning crops each year, which only get bigger and better! 

What’s more, each plant grows gorgeous and elegant, mid-green foliage to look great in patio pots.

Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting.

Top Tips
A great alternative for people who struggle to grow blueberries, honeyberries should be planted in pairs or groups, as this will increase the rate of pollination and therefore fruit production.
Care Information

Planting Advice:

  • Plant in any soil type that is rich in organic matter, in full sun.
  • Dig a planting hole three times wider than the roots of the shrub you're planting and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill one the shrub is in place.
  • Before planting soak container-grown shrubs thoroughly and allow to drain.
  • Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
  • Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker.
  • Place your shrub in the hole at the same level at the pot. Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling) and firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball.
  • Water well and mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc.
  • If you’re planting into pots, place some old rocks, stones or gravel in the bottom of the pot for drainage and ballast.
  • Use the best compost you can buy and some sand or grit for drainage.

Aftercare Advice:

  • Keep plants well-watered.
  • Feed just once a year in spring with a balanced fertiliser such as fish blood and bone.
  • Young plants only need dead growth removed for the first three years while they get established.
  • After that, prune annually in early to mid-summer after harvesting removing any overcrowded and damaged branches along with the tips of new growth to encourage flowering stems.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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