Aurora Honeyberry
Lonicera caerulea ‘Aurora’
Plant size: #1
H: 3-4′ W: 3-4′
Upright rounded shape
Zone 3
Full Sun
Out of stock
New in 2019! One of our customers told us about the honeyberries, and how the berries never made it to the kitchen—they were devoured before making it that far! So we got in two varieties, as they need a pollinator. Aurora Honeyberry was bred by the University of Saskatchewan. This variety is sweeter and more productive than some others, with slightly larger fruit. Similar in flavor to blueberries and producing earlier than strawberries, Aurora can be eaten fresh, used in baking, as jams, or jellies. A good pollinator for Borealis, Tundra, and other varieties in the Indigo series.
Visit Gardening Know How to learn how to grow honeyberries.
Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these. These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care. These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death. About sizes of our plants:
Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size; b&b stands for balled and burlapped.