Honeyberry Sites

In the spring of 2010 I received my first bare root honeyberry plants from a mail order catalogue. My search for cold hardy fruit led to a treasure hunt across international borders resulting in the discovery of the breeding program at University of Saskatchewan research station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

The success of our first shipment of honeyberries (haskap) in September of 2010 led to the formation of our company HoneyberryUSA, specializing in mail order sales of imported honeyberry and cold hardy dwarf sour cherry trees from Canada.

As our Northwoods Garden has now expanded into plant sales and a fruit orchard, we would like to refer you to the following websites for our honeyberry sales and news:

http://www.honeyberryusa.com/ - Webstore for ordering honeyberry, dwarf cherries, and other cold hardy fruit
http://www.honeyberryusa.wordpress.com/ - News from the Honeyberry Farm
http://www.haskapusa.blogspot.com/ - Tracking Haskap across the USA

See you there!

Year-old Tundra with unusually high number of blossoms

The Haskap Have Landed!

After months of planning, it was very exciting this past week to receive a box of Berry Blue pollinizer plants in 2 1/4" pots and several boxes of Tundra and Borealis from Canada, in 2 1/2" pots. The picture below shows the best plants, with the Tundra on the left reaching 15" in height. The majority of the Canadian haskap were entering dormancy and lost most of their leaves during the trip, but a couple plants held on long enough to show me how lovely they can be! The Berry Blue Honeyberry were more consistent in size and not as close to dormancy. (See August 12, 2010 posting for an explanation of haskap/honeyberry plants).

Tundra from Canada, Berry Blue from Oregon

The Best, the Worst, and the Average Tundra haskap

Tundra and Borealis are closely related and virtually indistinguisable to the untrained eye, but once they bear fruit the Borealis will have larger berries.

I was delighted to hear of a couple of instances of honeyberries being grown in Minnesota. Here is a picture of a three year old Berry Blue, taken in late August of 2010 at Bergeson Nursery at Fertile, MN. The well developed shrub was already entering dormancy. Berry Blues grow up to 8 feet tall, while Tundra and Borealis peak at 6 feet.

Berry Blue, age 3 (crabapples in background!)