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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

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**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.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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