What are some good varieties of honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle varieties: care and planting features

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According to the timing, it is best to plant honeysuckle in the second half of summer, in autumn. This is due to the fact that honeysuckle enters fruiting early and retires early, so its survival rate is better in autumn. Since in spring all her juices go up from the root, and after fruiting into the root. From my own experience, I will say that the honeysuckle planted in the fall took root and grew best for me. Planted in the spring, it was all sick.

Classification of plant varieties

And after what time do seedlings rotated from seeds begin to bear fruit? Is it realistic to order seeds and is it worth trusting the seeds sold on sites? I'm just thinking of ordering through the sites. So I doubt it.

Height classification

• (Yes, two-year-olds feel like nothing ... yet)
• Elena! Thank you very much for the interesting and useful information. Tell me, if possible, how to get honeysuckle seedlings (I am also from Krasnoyarsk). All the best and good luck! Best regards, Tatiana.
• Grown in the Pavlovsk laboratory of VIR and is one of the highest-yielding varieties of honeysuckle. Vigorous shrub, more than 1.5 meters high. Begins to bear fruit from the 3rd decade of June to the 4th decade of July, fruit ripening is uneven, shedding is weak. The berries are located on the branches in large bunches, they are very easy to pick, they are not sweet enough, but are ideal for medicinal purposes and homemade preparations. The best pollinating neighbors for the "Leningradsky Giant" are "Blue Bird", "Gzhelka", "Blue Spindle". The yield of this variety of honeysuckle is up to 3 kg of berries per bush.

Classification by taste

• "Amphora"
• Honeysuckle variety "Cinderella"
• • Significantly expands the diet.
• Honeysuckle Sorceress has an average ripening period. She has large berries with a dessert taste. The variety tolerates drought and hot climate well, but the berries crumble a little after ripening.

Decorative varieties

In addition, decorative types of honeysuckle, valued not so much for their fruits, but for their beautiful appearance, have two groups:

1. Honeysuckle Varieties Honeysuckle is a wonderful plant that is perfect for growing on the site.This plant is not only a valuable source of vitamins, whose fruits are very beneficial for health and have excellent taste, but also very beautiful.
2. There are many good varieties. And there should be many different ones for mutual pollination - then the yield increases many times over. I like the varieties Blue Bird, Blue Spindle and others. But it is not a fact that you will actually get the varieties that you buy. There is a re-sorting everywhere, both from the seller and from the reseller, and even from the manufacturer.

The most common types of honeysuckle

Variety "Sibiryachka"

The first fruits appear in the 3rd year. Order seeds on verified sites. Look for information on the forums. I collect my own seeds, but I ordered the seedlings from the site several times. This year I managed to get my own varietal seedlings from honeysuckle cuttings, which I wrote out in the spring of 2013. Honeysuckle obtained from cuttings begins to bear fruit in the 2nd year.

Variety "Fire Opal"

Hello, maybe tell me, I have a plant, they also say honeysuckle, the greens are the same and bloom as well, only the fruits are red and there are several berries on the leaf at once, maybe this is decorative honeysuckle? Thank you. Best regards, Natalia.

Variety "Morena"

Good day, everyone. Tell me, please, is a warm climate suitable for honeysuckle? I want to buy for my parents. They live in the south.

Honeysuckle variety "Kamchadalka"

Narym honeysuckle

Comes from the wild Kamchatka honeysuckle and is suitable for growing in the cold regions of Russia. Medium ripening. The bush is low, up to 1.5 meters, dense, rounded crown. It is recommended to plant Amphora next to Morena, Gzhelka, Altair. "Amphora" bears fruit in the third year after planting. The berries are large, up to 2.2 cm long, have a beautiful jug-like shape and are covered with a strong skin. Perfectly transported. The fruits of "Amphora" have a sweet and sour taste with a slight bitterness. The berry is ideal for homemade preparations. Productivity - from 0.8 to 1.3 kg of fruits per bush.

Variety "Berel"

"Cinderella"

Today's "cultivated" honeysuckle is the pride of Russian breeders. She took her rightful place in our gardens and at our table.

Honeysuckle variety "Magician"

Gerda is a winter-hardy and mid-early variety that resists diseases and pests well. The variety also tolerates Siberian frosts well. The plant bears the first fruits for 3-4 years of its life. Compound fruits do not crumble after ripening, the fruits are universal in use: they can be consumed fresh or processed.

Variety "Gerda"

Lianas: curly, Brown's honeysuckle, honeysuckle, Hector's and Thälmann's honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle varieties (video)

Variety "Lenita"

There are many different varieties of honeysuckle, among which you can pick up a lot of options for your site.

Barkcharsky honeysuckle variety

Therefore, answering two of your questions at once, I will tell you how I do:

Honeysuckle varieties

Better to plant honeysuckle in the fall. And look at the varieties in the Bakchar nursery. You won't find it better.Natalia, are these berries?

Laura, you know, I haven’t seen it grown here ... She needs snow, as far as I understand .., but where can we get it ?! :))

"Kamchadalka"

Honeysuckle variety "Altair"

- a great hard worker. She begins to bear fruit in the second year after planting. Refers to the early maturing species of honeysuckle. Likes to coexist with bushes of varieties "Leningradsky Giant" and "Amphora". The bush is low - up to 0.7 meters, with thin shoots, without pubescence. The berry has a pleasant sour-sweet taste with the smell of strawberries. The fruits of "Cinderella" are not large, with a delicate blue bloom and thin skin. They are famous for their healing properties and rich content of vitamins P and C. "Cinderella" is called the princess among honeysuckle, because it has an exquisite taste and unusually fragrant. Productivity - from 1.5 to 3 kg of fruits per bush.

So, the most delicious and popular varieties of honeysuckle

One of the largest-fruited varieties of honeysuckle is Lenita.They ripen late, but the berries of the bush are very sweet and do not crumble. The bush has sprawling branches with red curved shoots and hanging tops. The leaves of the shrub are green and medium in size. With careful and proper care, the variety has a yield - 1.5 kg of berries per bush. The fruits of the shrub are used fresh and after technical processing.

Erect bushes: golden honeysuckle, alpine, Maak's, Korolkov's, Maksimochvich's honeysuckle, common honeysuckle, Tatar, veil.

Honeysuckle has a huge number of different varieties, from which you can choose the one that suits you in terms of its properties and characteristics. There are various options for classifying varieties.

Taking into account that seedlings with a closed root system can be planted at any warm season, then I go to buy honeysuckle only with a closed root system when its berries are ripe. I try the berries right on the bush, and if I like the taste, size, consistency, then I take it, and several different varieties. The names themselves are no longer important - after all, you are satisfied with their taste. And how the seller will "acquire" them is unknown - he can name the most popular varieties offhand - you still cannot check.If there is, then several different varieties are topThis is honeysuckle, honeysuckle, an inedible decorative liana :) Last edited on 10 September 2015, 13:15

Parents, where exactly, in the south? If the Rostov region or the Stavropol Territory is tolerable .. if the Crimea or the Kuban .., then it is unlikely ... Survive, it will survive .., only the fruits ... Small .., dryish and little ... Rusty will suffer, probably ...

- a high-yielding and frost-resistant representative of the Siberian selection. This is a medium-ripening honeysuckle variety. A shrub up to 1.5 meters high, with a dense conical crown and large, elongated leaves, is able to refine the exterior. Looks very nice in front gardens and hedges. Kamchadalka does not like sudden temperature changes and grows well in temperate climates. Its berries are large, elongated, up to 2.7 cm long, with delicate pulp and thinnest skin. Productivity - from 2.7 to 3.5 kg. berries from the bush.Altair

Honeysuckle variety "Morena"

Honeysuckle cultivar "Viliga"The basis of northern gardening is the Barkcharsky variety, which has an average ripening period. The bushes are very compact in shape, medium-sized, the branches are loosely arranged. All this makes it very easy to harvest. The berries have a pear-shaped shape, which is well preserved when picked, do not have bitterness, and are sweet and sour. Such fruits are good fresh and frozen, since they do not sour after thawing. We recommend reading the article on preparing ornamental shrubs for winter.

Sibiryachka is an early ripening variety. It is a medium-sized bush with curved branches and a rounded crown. The leaves of the shrub are elongated-oval, there are also elongated-drop-shaped very large fruits with a bumpy surface and a pointed tip. The berries have a sweet and sour taste, the yield is 2.5 kg per honeysuckle bush.

Low-growing varieties with a height of 1-1.5 m: Nizhegorodskaya early, Gzhel late, Lyulia, Lakomka, Violet, Gerda, Ramenskaya, Julia, Souvenir, Kamchadalka.Now they sell in containers those with a closed root system.Such seedlings can be planted at any time BUT honeysuckle for berries needs 2-3 varieties They must be pollinated

Can be poured and shaded. There are many varieties, some for decoration, only flowers, others for food. The main thing is a good root - no rot and not dry

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In general, all varieties of honeysuckle are good. With a minimum of labor and money, honeysuckle brings a lot of benefits. She is tasty, healthy, unpretentious, beautiful and very friendly. In other words, it perfectly adapts among other plants in your garden.How to plant and grow honeysuckle, read the article "This wonderful honeysuckle ... planting and care."

- a variety of early ripening honeysuckle of the famous Pavlovsk selection. But in the weather conditions of Moscow and the Moscow region, the fruits ripen a week later than other varieties of honeysuckle. "Altair" comes from the Kamchatka population of wild-growing honeysuckle, therefore it is very unpretentious in care and rarely gets sick. The shrub has a dense, squat crown of a spherical shape and reaches a height of 1.5 meters. Berries of medium size, have a pronounced waxy coating. "Altair" is one of the most delicious types of honeysuckle, the fruits are juicy, soft, very sweet, with a characteristic astringency. Productivity - up to 2.5 kg of berries per bush.Morena

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HoneysuckleThe Fire Opal variety is very frost-resistant, and even to spring frosts. Bushes of low size, with a spreading crown, straight shoots. The leaves of honeysuckle are dark green, slightly pubescent on the back of the leaf, as well as along its edge. The berries of Fire Opal are large, smooth. Due to the fact that the fruits have a slight bitterness, they are often used to make jam. This type of plant has a high yield, giving about 6 kg per bush from the ninth year of life. The fruits ripen every year, their taste is quite pleasant and refreshing. In addition, the shrub is resistant to diseases and is rarely attacked by pests.

Medium height (1.5-2): Gzhel early, Gzhelka, Kubyshka, Kingfisher, Kuminovka, Korchaga, Princess Diana, Heap is small, My Joy, Ulyana, Shahinya, Cinderella, Bakcharskaya, Tomichka, Azure.

Honeysuckle should be planted with several bushes. Cross-pollination is in progress and yields are getting higher. Honeysuckle is not a very high-yielding crop anyway. Delicious honeysuckle blue spindle. Now there are very sweet varieties, but I won't tell you the names. It is necessary to look at the Chelyabinsk residents. Also, what are you going to do with it? I'm making jam. And somehow she ate jam from honeysuckle, which is bitter. The taste is completely different than the jam made from sweet honeysuckle varieties. Did you eat red rowan jam (with bitterness?)?Honeysuckle is planted in several varieties, it needs a pollinator. And the term depends on the region. I planted mine in June, and now we still have knee-deep snow in the Moscow region. The variety can be searched on the Internet on gardening sites, there is a full description, but not the fact that you will buy what is written on the label

Yes, yes, it was she, the birds really liked it!

I would like to correct the author - it struck me painfully. In the 90s at the dacha on the way to Akademgorodok (now the garden partnership "Pobeda") spent the whole summer and honeysuckle was growing there, and not only in our garden. Although she was sour, but we dragged her from the neighboring gardens because there was nothing to do. But the jam from it turned out to be simply excellent! So it was clearly more than 20 years ago that it was domesticated, back in the days of the USSR.Thank you Elena for a great review. We adore honeysuckle, have lived for many years in Kamchatka and now we grow honeysuckle in the country. This is the earliest berry in our country, the children are delighted with it.

Honeysuckle variety "Dolphin"

- a variety of Pavlovsk selection. In the conditions of Moscow and the Moscow region "Morena" ripens a week earlier than other varieties of honeysuckle, but the berries remain on the bushes for a long time and do not crumble. The bush is medium-tall, with a squat crown and bright green leaves. "Morena" pleases us with fragrant fruits, with a tart-sweet taste, without bitterness. The skin is thin, translucent. The berries are very large, up to 3 cm long, so picking Morena from the bush is easy and pleasant. But it does not belong to high-yielding varieties. For the season, it gives up to 1.5 kg. berries from the bush.Wiliga

Literally burst into Russian gardens! Until 20 years ago, no one even thought of this berry as a garden plant. After all, honeysuckle is a forest dweller.

Diana Serzhevna, St. Petersburg-Vyborg

Morena is a versatile variety, vigorous, with large, aromatic, sweet and sour berries, completely free of bitterness, which distinguishes the variety very favorably from others. They have an elongated cylindrical shape.

mtl

High varieties: Kingfisher, Nymph, Violet, My Joy, Lakomka, Gzhel late, Moscow-23, Ramenskaya.

It is necessary to plant at least two bushes, and, preferably, not on different edges of the site, so it is easier for her to pollinate.

Sibiryachka, Blue Spindle, Nymph, Morena, Amphora. Bakhcharskaya, Leningrad giant. Roxanne

For the second year I have been prescribing seedlings, including honeysuckle, in the nursery Sady Urala Miroleeva. It is easy to find through the search. Saplings come in excellent condition in spring and autumn. The prices are very affordable.

Lora Frolova

In May of this year, I bought several honeysuckle bushes - 2 two-year-olds and 5 one-year-olds.

Natalia, Novorossiysk

Thanks for the stuff!

Lora Frolova

"Dolphin"

Tinkova Natalia

Honeysuckle variety "Blue Bird"

, Which in the Magadan region, gave the name to this wonderful variety of honeysuckle. "Viliga" is cultivated by Moscow breeders for cultivation in Siberian regions and can withstand frosts up to 50 degrees, is unpretentious and weakly crumbled. The height of the bush reaches 2 meters when planting not thickened. Berries contain organic acids and are very rich in vitamins C, P, PP, A. "Vilinga" has elongated cylindrical fruits up to 3 cm long, refreshing and surprisingly tasty, with a characteristic astringency. Productivity - up to 2.5 kg of fruits per bush.

Olga, Rybnitsa

What does she do in our suburban areas?

Tinkova Natalia

The bush is resistant to cold weather, diseases and pests.

Tinkova Natalia

Sweet with sourness: Nizhny Novgorod early, Gzhel late, Kuminovka, Korchaga, Gzhel early, Princess Diana, Kamchadalka, Bakcharskaya, Tomichka, Korchaga The heap is small.

2-3 varieties of honeysuckle are a must-have

If you buy honeysuckle seedlings in pots (ZKS), then you can plant from spring to autumn. ...

DEAR Elena, I am interested in your berry. Is it possible to send me seedlings to Germany? Thank you in advance!

At first, one-year-olds seemed to grow, new leaves appeared, but now they began to bend ... on one of them, the leaves first turned yellow, then turned completely brown and twisted ... in short, dried up ... The rest are a little better, but it is also clear that they are not well ...

Could the author or other readers of the magazine tell you where you can buy these delicious varieties of honeysuckle in the Moscow region?

- a representative of the coastal population of honeysuckle. Medium ripening. More suitable for cultivation in the eastern regions of Russia. The shrub blooms twice a season - in spring and autumn, so its winter hardiness is reduced. The bush is up to 1.5 meters high and has a round, densely growing crown. The shoots are drooping, with wide concave leaves. The berries are large, cylindrical in shape. The top of the berries is shaped like a dolphin's smile (hence the name). The surface of the fruit is slightly bumpy, the skin is rather thick. The berries are not large, but they grow abundantly and are very tasty. The yield is high - up to 3 kg of fruits per bush.

"Blue Bird"

Honeysuckle variety "Gzhelka"

• Gives us a wonderful harvest of unusually tasty, vitamin berries.

Narym honeysuckle is a dense bush with a rounded shape, which has large dark purple infructescences with a waxy bloom. The stem of the plant is thin and green, the fruits have a good, sweet and sour taste and light aroma. Ripens early, but elongated. Possesses high winter resistance, as well as drought, pests and diseases. Begins to bear fruits from the second year of life after planting.

Sweet without sourness: Azure, Kingfisher, Ramenskaya.

The most optimal is 4 bushes of different varieties (one variety must be with bitterness). There are many varieties, I do not know which ones are in your region, but I, like Nina, like the Blue Spindle.There is one little secret in growing honeysuckle (this winter, it was suggested by a woman who collects 2-3 buckets from a bush every year, I will definitely do this). The secret is to use fluffy lime (2 times per season).

If you plant seedlings with an open root system (OCS), then first place the roots of the seedling in a bucket of water for 1 hour, and then plant, and shade the seedling itself from the scorching sun.

Hello DEAR Elena is writing you to Moldova Vasily, I will buy at you such beauties and probably delicious as you can, so that you sell me at least one hell of a Semets, I will send you money how much you say, I beg you for the early, I will say THANK YOU to Vasily

When planting, Ogorodnik added fertilizer based on chicken droppings - it seemed like it was indicated on the package what was used for planting ...

There is something in online stores that theoretically deliver anywhere, and I was even going to order in one, but then I looked for reviews on the Internet and found a lot of impartial ...

Honeysuckle variety "Leningrad Giant"

I want to buy honeysuckle seedlings. Which variety is better? And is it possible to plant it after May 9, that is, not in early spring?

Julia Gorshenina

Descended from its wild Kamchatka counterpart. The selection of this crop was carried out at the Research Institute of Horticulture in Siberia. "Blue Bird" - honeysuckle of early ripening, very unpretentious and practically not susceptible to disease. The harvest begins in the 3rd year after planting; fruiting lasts 20-25 years. The shape of the crown of the shrub is round, the bush is vigorous, massive. The berries are bluish-blue, elongated, weighing 0.9-1.2 grams, with a pronounced waxy bloom. "Blue Bird" has a soft-soft taste, without sourness specific to honeysuckle. Has a high sugar content (6.4%). Productivity - from 1.5 to 2.5 kg of berries per bush.

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"Gzhelka

Elena

• Perfectly decorates with its persona landscape design.

Tane4ka

The berel variety is also characterized by winter hardiness, resistance to diseases and pests. The fruits have excellent taste, do not crumble, do not have bitterness. Its fruit stems are well attached to the peduncle. The fruits of the berel are dark blue, large with a waxy bloom. The fruit has a fibrous pulp and a firm skin. The berries have a sweet and sour taste with a barely noticeable bitterness. Therefore, berries are recommended for making natural juice, compote or food coloring from them. The variety is self-fertile, and therefore it must be pollinated with the help of varieties of Kamchatka honeysuckle, as well as its seedlings.

D E N V E R

Sweet with strawberry flavor: Cinderella, Volkhova.
In the spring, before flowering, the soil under the bush is sprinkled with fluff, slightly loosened and shed well. In the fall, they simply sprinkle the earth with this lime
South Ural - I have 3 varieties - MORENA, LONG-FRUIT AND CHELYABINKA - 2-3 varieties are needed - pollinators. We have a good pair of LONGS. and CHELYAB. Honeysuckle bears the earliest - plant as early as possible. Unpretentious. You can root the layers. To taste - Long-fruited is good, Chelyab is also Morena - the later variety is also nothing.

Tatiana Panikovskaya-Konyukhova

Is it possible to grow honeysuckle from seeds? And then somehow the seedlings are not delivered to us :(

Natalia Solovieva

When it was hot, I watered, although this summer is very rainy and somehow I didn't have to take care of it….
Can someone recommend verified sites?

Merry Hilda

"Leningrad Giant"
Honeysuckle variety "Amphora"
»Ripens later than other varieties of honeysuckle and is resistant to recurrent frost during the flowering period. If you plant "Gzhelka" in an open place, then the bushes can grow up to two meters high. If you thicken the planting, the bushes will be undersized, but this will not affect the yield at all. "Gzhelka" is also used to decorate the garden. Large dark green leaves of the shrub are just as suitable for decorating hedges in landscape design."Gzhelka" is a versatile variety, two in one - a hedge and a magnificent sweet berry with the characteristic tartness of honeysuckle. Productivity - up to 2.5 kg of berries per bush.

Olga

• Serves as an excellent remedy for all ailments.

What is the tastiest edible honeysuckle variety? Is it possible to plant only one bush or two?

Nina Ablalimova

The blue spindle variety perfectly tolerates severe Siberian frosts. It is not susceptible to disease and frost-resistant in spring. It has an early ripening period. It is versatile in use, has sweet-sour fruits with a slight bitterness.

Tatyanka

Sweet with a pronounced sourness: Gzhelka, Lyulia, Moskovskaya-23, Lakomka, Kubyshka, Viliga, Nymph, Ulyana, Violet, Omega, Souvenir, Blue Spindle, Gerda, Shahinya, Fortuna, Kubyshka.

GALINA TIKHONOVA

I have 5 different varieties of Saiya delicious blue spindle.

tatiana savchenko SIBERIA

It is best to plant 2-3 varieties side by side - this is necessary for better pollination and fruit formation. Good varieties - Bochkar selection, spindle, Nymph, Morena.
Yes, it is possible to grow honeysuckle saplings from seeds, only the varietal qualities will most likely differ from the maternal ones. Seeds must be sown either immediately, in June, or in January. Until January, I store the seeds in a damp cloth, which I put in a plastic bag and in the refrigerator, on the top shelf of the door. In January, I sow in the soil (humus + sand, you can add peat). I spread the seeds on the surface, lightly sprinkle them, water them from a spray bottle, put them in a transparent plastic bag and put them on a window where there is no direct sunlight. Seeds begin to sprout after about a month, some after 2 months. When the first few shoots appear, I remove the cellophane and transfer it to a more illuminated place. I also water from a spray bottle as the soil dries up. In May, I plant it in a "nursery", that is. in a small bed, which I have located under the tree, which is also abundantly filled with sand and sawdust, without weeds. A bed on the north side of the tree, where there is a shadow. There the seedlings grow until autumn, from the beginning to the end of October I plant them in a permanent place. If you need information on the summer planting of seeds, write, I will tell you in detail.

Olga

What could be the problem?

Good day! I ordered in the publishing house "Garden World" on the recommendation of a matchmaker. The bush of the "Bakcharsky giant" arrived safe and sound. All other plants also took root.

What do we associate the word "berry" with? These are round, red, yellow, less often green, taste sweet or sweet and sour small fruits. The first to come to mind are raspberries, gooseberries, and strawberries. But, even in our gardens, you can grow berries that do not correspond to this idea at all - this is honeysuckle, a berry that has an irregular elongated shape, a bright blue color and a very unusual, complex and refined taste. Many gardeners are interested in what varieties of edible honeysuckle are most suitable for growing in our conditions. Below we will provide descriptions of the most interesting varieties of domestic and foreign selection that can be bought in garden centers and nurseries, as well as what kind of care they need to provide in the garden.

The benefits of garden honeysuckle

The first mentions of an unusual shrub with delicious blue berries were voiced by the Russian explorer Atlasov after his trip to Kamchatka at the end of the 17th century. Then it turned out that this berry is widespread and enjoys great love among the inhabitants of Altai, Sayan Mountains, Transbaikalia, Primorsky Territory. In those regions, honeysuckle is considered not only an excellent delicacy, but also a very effective healing agent.

Honeysuckle fruits (only edible!) Are used for hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, internal bleeding. They have the ability to strengthen the walls of blood vessels, cleanse the gallbladder from sand and stones, and are also useful for gastrointestinal disorders and poisoning.Fresh berries, pounded with sugar and in the form of jam, act as an antipyretic agent.

The composition of edible honeysuckle berries is truly unique - it is a storehouse of the most important biologically active substances and vitamins. In particular, these berries are considered champions in terms of the content of P-active substances and vitamin C in an ideal ratio for the human body. Berries are an excellent antioxidant.

But, it would be wrong to say that the benefits are the main reason to rank this unique berry among the top 10. Edible honeysuckle also has a number of other great qualities:

• Refined taste: sweet and sour, in some varieties - with a piquant bitterness, others without bitterness, high juiciness.
• This is the earliest berry. In central Russia, it ripens in early June, in the southern regions - in mid-May, and in the north - in the second part of June. Today there are also late-ripening varieties, so fruiting can be extended almost until August. Care consists only in timely harvesting.
• The fruits can be consumed not only fresh - they are perfectly stored frozen, they can be dried, used for making compotes, juice, preserves, marmalades and jam. Wine of excellent taste is even made from these berries.
• Edible honeysuckle is an unpretentious and durable plant. Lives and actively bears fruit up to 60-80 years. The shrub is very frost-resistant - it is not damaged even at temperatures down to -45 C.

Fruiting of bushes begins at the age of three, care is simple, and the average yield is 1-3 kg per bush. Although some varieties, for example, Amur of German selection, under good conditions, gives up to 5 kg of rather large berries without bitterness.

The only drawback of this type of berries is that they ripen almost at the same time and immediately crumble. And their skin is very delicate and bursts even from the touch of a hand, therefore, when it hits the ground, most of the berries are damaged. For this reason, edible honeysuckle berries are not grown commercially, and breeders are not very fond of it. Almost all known varieties were bred by IV Michurin, who generally considered honeysuckle to be berry No. 1, or by amateur enthusiasts.

By the way, in order to keep the berries intact during ripening, it is recommended to hang a thin net under the bush (you can use gauze) and lightly shake off the branches from time to time - ripe berries crumble. Or you need to collect them by hand and put them in a container, only 2-3 layers maximum.

How to grow garden honeysuckle?

It is best to plant bushes in the second half of August or early autumn. Spring planting delays the onset of fruiting by another year, no matter what kind of care. Several specimens should be planted at the same time and preferably of different varieties. This is because this plant is cross-pollinated. If you plant only 1 bush, then you can not wait for the harvest. The best inter-pollinators are such pairs of domestic varieties:

• Vasyugan - Tomichka;
• Pavlovskaya - Tomichka;
• Blue Spindle - Blue Bird;
• Chelyabinka - Long-fruited.

The ideal place for planting bushes is an open, sunny place, and the soil must be improved to a high level of fertility and moisture capacity. The easiest way to do this is by adding peat, leaf humus in large quantities to the planting pit. The bottom of the pit can be covered by 20-30 cm with dry grass and garden waste.

Pits should be made at a distance of 1.5 meters from each other - this way you will provide ideal conditions for cross-pollination. After planting, you need to pour at least 1 bucket of water under each bush.

Plants of edible honeysuckle do not need to be pruned, as is customary with all shrubs, since pruning in honeysuckle delays growth and the beginning of fruiting.

Adult plants do not require annual pruning. It's just that every spring you need to remove dry, broken or interfering with harvesting branches growing inside the crown.For the rest, the conditions for growing this crop and caring for it are the same as those of black currant.

The best varieties of edible honeysuckle of domestic selection

Officially in Russia, honeysuckle was added to the list of berry crops, oddly enough, only in 1956, and abroad even later. But during this time, more than a hundred large-fruited and high-yielding varieties have appeared, the planting of which will be appropriate in gardens and dachas. Interestingly, most of the names are associated with the color of the fruit: Dove, Azure, Blue Spindle, Blue Bird, Titmouse, etc.

Today, for amateur cultivation from Russian varieties of edible honeysuckle, the following can be called:

Variety name	Yield per bush (kg)	Weight of the 1st berry in grams	Description of berries and taste, other characteristics
Enchantress	up to 2	1,2-1,3	Compact bush, early harvest, dessert taste. No bitterness.
Viola	up to 1.5	1	The most resistant variety to diseases and pests. Frost resistance up to - 48 C. Berries are sweet and sour, with bitterness.
My joy	1,5-2	1,2	Late grade, berries with bitterness, excellent grade for preparing blanks.
Altair	about 1	1	Medium ripening, the berries are bright blue with a strong waxy bloom and a very fresh taste without bitterness.
Long-fruited	2	1,5	The berries are long, bumpy, with an excellent taste. Ripening very early.
Martin	up to 1.5	1-1,2	Very tasty berries, ripen early.
Pushkinskaya	1	1	Early fruits, cylindrical, sweet and sour, with a very pleasant aroma. Very hardy variety.
Sineglazka	2	1-1,3	Berries are sweet and sour, without bitterness, early.
Bazhovskaya	2	1,5-2	One of the best large-fruited medium-ripening varieties, dessert berries.
Lapis lazuli	up to 2.5	2-2,2	Very large tasty berry, ripening - July
Malvina	1,5	1	Bright, with a bluish bloom, tasty berries without bitterness.
Zest	1,2-1,5	1,5	Delicious, aromatic, berries without bitterness, do not crumble.
Blueberry	2,5	up to 1	Flat fruits of excellent dessert taste, ripening in early July.
Sinilga	2	about 1	Late ripening, berries with a slight bitterness.
Slav	1,5	0,9	Bright blue, thin-skinned berries, the sweetest of all, no bitterness, late ripening.
Chelyabinka	2	1.1	Very good taste and berries do not crumble for a long time. Ripening - early August.

Foreign varieties of edible honeysuckle available to gardeners in our country are real masterpieces of selection. Among them, it should be noted such as George Bugnet, Marie Bugnet (Canada) - these are truly unique hybrids: the berries do not ripen simultaneously, but from June to August and do not crumble for several weeks. The German variety Amur and Blue-Gray (USA) is distinguished by long berries with a great taste, absolutely no bitterness.

Edible honeysuckle is not only a useful plant that can give a rich harvest of delicious berries, but also a bright decoration of the spring garden. Let's see which varieties of honeysuckle should be preferred.

Based on the opinion of experienced gardeners, we have selected the top ten varieties. Although, in terms of decorative qualities, these shrubs can sometimes be inferior to other types and varieties of honeysuckle, but first of all they are famous for their good yield, winter hardiness and unpretentiousness.

In the list, the varieties are located not by popularity (they are all held in high esteem by gardeners), but alphabetically.

1. Altair

This early maturing variety has already managed to fall in love with many gardeners due to its resistance to cold, common diseases and pests. Delicious and sweet berries (blue-blue with a waxy coating) ripen on a bush with a dense and squat crown in mid-June and do not crumble for a long time. Therefore, Altair is great for people who come to the country no more than once a month. After all, even fully ripe berries remain on the plant until you pick them.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
Up to 1.4	June 12-16	0,9-1	1,7-2	Blue spindle Malvina, Morena

2. Bakchar giant

This large-fruited variety of medium ripening is suitable for those who have enough free space on the site. After all, the powerful bushes of the Bakchar giant reach a height of almost 2 m, and a width of 1.3 m. The crown is oval, spreading, loose. Thanks to the sparse crown, it is convenient to pick fruits from the bush.

Leaves are gray-green, matte. Berries are large (up to 5 cm long), elongated-oval, slightly asymmetrical, dark blue with a waxy bloom. Fruits can be eaten fresh, frozen, and can also be used for making wines, juices, jellies, compotes, and preserves from them.

The plant is winter-hardy, resistant to diseases and pests.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
1,7-1,9	end of June	1,8-2,5	2-3	Amphora, Pride of Bakchar, Azure, Nymph, In memory of Gijuk

3. Blue spindle

This early maturing honeysuckle is distinguished by its high yield, good resistance to frost and drought, as well as to diseases and pests.

The crown of the bush is rather rare, the shoots are thin, straight, greenish in color. Leaves are oval, elongated, dark green. The berries are large (about 2.7 cm long), shaped like an elongated spindle. The skin is blue with a waxy bloom. The flesh is sweet and sour, but can taste bitter during drought. Therefore, when growing this honeysuckle, you must observe the watering regime.

The disadvantage of this variety is that ripe berries quickly crumble.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
Up to 1 m	June 12-23	1-1,5	1,5-2,5	Cinderella, Kamchadalka, Azure, Bluebird, Tomichka, In Memory of Gidzyuk

4. Long-fruited

This is one of the first zoned Ural varieties. Long-fruited honeysuckle is characterized by high winter hardiness and early ripening of fruits in the form of an elongated flat cylinder. Their length is up to 2.7 cm. The bush is spreading, with a rounded crown. Shoots are thin, long. Leaves are lanceolate, elongated, dark green.

The skin of the fruit is thin, violet-blue, with a whitish waxy coating. The pulp is sweet and sour, tender, without bitterness. Sprinkling rate of ripe berries is average.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
Up to 1 m	June 10-20	0,9-2	1,4-3	Zest, Smolinskaya, Sineglazka, Morena, Chernichka. But the best pollinator variety is Chelyabinka

5. Cinderella

On compact low bushes with a dense crown, thin light green shoots and leaves of the same color, tasty berries ripen in the form of an elongated cylinder or spindle. The skin is thin, dark blue (almost black) with a blue bloom. The pulp is soft, sweet and sour, with a light strawberry aroma, very tasty.

Due to the low growth of the bush, picking berries is difficult, and they also quickly crumble. However, most of the fruits are located on the outside of the crown, therefore, when manually harvesting, it is possible to save the crop.

The variety is distinguished by very good winter hardiness, flowers are immune to recurrent spring frosts. In addition, the plant is resistant to disease.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
0,6-0,7	June 15-22	0,6-1,4	1-3	Azure, Gerda, Amphora, Kamchadalka, Leningrad giant, In memory of Gidzyuk, Parabelskaya, Tomichka

6. Leningrad giant

An adult shrub of this vigorous honeysuckle can reach a height of just over 2 m. It is erect, slightly spreading, with a compact rounded-oval crown. Berries are large (about 3 cm long), as a rule, elongated-cylindrical in shape. They ripen unevenly throughout the month. The berries are arranged in bulky bunches, so they are easy to pick.

The skin is dense, dark blue, with a thin layer of gray waxy bloom. The pulp is dense, fibrous, delicate in taste, sweetish-sour, does not taste bitter.

The variety is resistant to diseases and pests, the plant is not damaged by frost even in severe winters, the flowers can withstand spring frosts down to –7 ° С.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
1-2	June 20 - July 30	1-4	1-3,3	Gzhelka, Blue spindle, Malvina, Morena, In memory of Kuminov, Bluebird, Start

7. Morena

This early-maturing honeysuckle has a rather wide (up to 1.7 m) and squat crown of an oval shape, lanceolate leaves of a light green color and large fruits (up to 3 cm long) in the form of an elongated jug. They have a thin, almost transparent, blue-blue skin with a pronounced waxy coating. The pulp of the berries is sweet and sour, tender, with a light aroma, without bitterness. Ripe fruits do not fall off the bush for a long time.

The winter hardiness of the variety is above average. The plant is rarely damaged by pests and practically does not get sick.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
Up to 1.7	June 15-30	1-3	1,2-2	Viola, Amphora, Blue spindle Kamchadalka, Malvina, In memory of Kuminov, Bluebird, Start

8. Nymph

The shrub of this variety is medium-sized, with a rounded and slightly spreading crown, prone to thickening. Shoots are long, straight, brownish-green. Leaves are elongated-oval, dark green. The berries are rather large (up to 3 cm long), elongated, resemble a spindle in shape, sometimes they are curved and have bumps on the surface.

The skin is bluish-blue, covered with a waxy bloom of medium intensity. The pulp is fibrous, sweetish-sour, slightly tart, with a spicy aroma and light bitterness. On young plants, ripe berries do not crumble for a long time, and on old ones, ripe fruits quickly end up on the ground.

The variety is very winter hardy, suitable for growing in extreme conditions. The plant is rarely sick.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
Up to 1.7	June 13-30	1-3	1,3-2	Amphora, Chosen One, Azure, Pavlovskaya, In memory of Gijuk

9. Bluebird

This variety is obtained on the basis of Kamchatka honeysuckle. Bushes - vigorous, with a spreading oval crown. Shoots are thin, straight. Leaves are oval, with a pointed tip. Berries are medium (up to 2 cm long), in the form of a slightly elongated ellipse. The skin is bluish-black, with a strong waxy bloom. The pulp is tender, sour-sweet, slightly tart. The fruit tastes like blueberries.

Honeysuckle Blue bird is unpretentious in care, almost does not get sick, does not freeze in winter and is not afraid of harmful insects.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
1,3-1,8	June 14-22	0,8-1,2	1-2	Blue spindle, Cinderella Kamchadalka, Malvina, Morena, In Memory of Kuminov, Titmouse, Start

10. Tomichka

This plant has a compact, semi-spreading crown, the ends of the shoots falling to the ground. Leaves are light green, slightly pubescent. The berries are shaped like a jug or a wide drop with a depressed top. They have an uneven surface, the skin is blue-violet (almost black) with a waxy coating. The pulp is sweet and sour, without bitterness. The berries are not crumpled during transportation.

In rare cases, the plant can damage aphids.

Bush height (m)	Ripening period berries	Fruit weight (g)	Yield (kg per bush)	Pollinating varieties
1,5-1,6	June 10-20	1-2	2,5-3,2	Blue Spindle, Blue Bird, Pavlovskaya, Bakcharskaya, Vasyugan, Daughter of the Giant, Bakchar giant

Do you grow edible honeysuckle on the site? If you have not yet decided to "settle" this useful shrub in your garden, read our article 5 reasons to grow honeysuckle in the garden. We hope she will dispel all your doubts!

On the plots of gardening enthusiasts, it is customary to grow at least one honeysuckle bush. And true admirers of this culture know that there are various varieties that differ in taste. In addition, gardeners know that plants belonging to different varieties can influence each other's yield.Therefore, it is not surprising that several specimens of this wonderful shrub can grow in their garden.

General description of the plant

Many varieties of honeysuckle are unpretentious, frost-resistant. The plant does not require painstaking care. Basically, it consists in pruning drying out branches, loosening the soil under and around the bush, removing weeds and feeding. Honeysuckle bushes respond positively to abundant watering, and do not tolerate drought. Loosening of the soil should not be carried out to a great depth, since the roots of the plant are located close to the surface.

The beginning of flowering dates back to around mid-May - this largely depends on the weather and the region where the crop is grown. In the spring, the bush is covered with fragrant flowers. They attract a large number of insects, mainly bees, bumblebees, and flies. It is thanks to their visits that the bush is pollinated. It must be remembered that there are also self-fruitless varieties of honeysuckle, for pollination of which the presence of a plant of another variety is necessary on the site. Flowers are able to withstand a drop in air temperature to minus 5 - 7 degrees.

Reproduction of honeysuckle

The plant does not grow. Reproduction takes place by rooting annual shoots, cuttings, as well as green cuttings. The methods of obtaining planting material are similar to those used for the propagation of gooseberries and currants. Sometimes gardeners use the seed method of propagation of honeysuckle, which is considered to be the most laborious and troublesome.

The plant should be planted in such a way that it is under the cover of the crowns of taller plants. Choosing such a planting site helps to achieve the best yield of honeysuckle. Its fruits, being in direct sunlight, may shrink.

Honeysuckle has an attractive crown shape; the bush can become a real decoration of the gardening site during the entire growing season.

Fruiting

In the third or fourth year after planting annual shoots, honeysuckle begins to yield.

Fruits ripen very early (in the first half of June), even before strawberries or any other berries appear in the garden. This is undoubtedly a great advantage that honeysuckle has. Sweet varieties of berries ripen at an earlier date. But they are distinguished by the fact that when they reach maturity, the fruits quickly fall off. This is one of the negative properties of certain varieties of honeysuckle. Gardeners have found a way to harvest crops without loss. To do this, during the period of active ripening of honeysuckle berries, spread a film, paper or some other material under the bush, from which you can easily collect the sprinkled fruits later.

Berries are very rich in active substances, sugars, acids, vitamins, which have a beneficial effect on the functioning of various systems of the human body. They can be consumed fresh and processed.

There are many recipes for cooking dishes using honeysuckle. It can be prepared for the winter in the form of freezing, jam, jam, compote, juice. The color and taste of the jam is very similar to cherry jam. Honeysuckle juice is used as a food coloring.

Honeysuckle varieties

The popularity of the shrub increases from year to year. That is why, having received its beginning 40 years ago, breeding work is carried out very actively today. Today, there are many varieties and forms that honeysuckle can have. The best plant varieties are offered by many fruit nurseries and research institutes, so it is not difficult to acquire a specimen of interest to a gardener.

All existing crop varieties can be divided into groups for different reasons. Taking into account the ripening time of the berry harvest, it is possible to distinguish early, mid-season and late-ripening species.

Productivity, taste of berries, their size, shape, color, conditions for growing a bush - a list of distinctive properties that different varieties of honeysuckle have.

Depending on belonging to a particular variety, the berries can have different shades of purple, sometimes approaching black. A distinctive feature is a kind of bluish bloom that covers the honeysuckle fruits.

The shape of the berries is very diverse - oval, cylindrical, round-oval, fusiform, elongated or with a truncated end. Large-fruited varieties of honeysuckle can produce berries up to 2 cm long and 8 mm wide.

Taste characteristics are one of the main indicators of the variety. There are sweet, sour-sweet berries, with and without bitterness, and many other honeysuckle flavors are also known.

What determines the choice of shrub variety

Before deciding to plant a plant in the garden, it is advisable to familiarize yourself with the peculiarities of the variety, its distinctive characteristics. This will avoid disappointment when the fruits appear or the bush reaches the size of an adult plant.

For some gardeners, not only the taste of the berries matters, but also the yield of the variety, which is also different. It ranges from 500 grams to 4 kg per bush.

It is necessary to take into account the size and shape of the honeysuckle bush in order to choose the right place for growing on the site. The bush usually reaches its maximum size after 6 - 10 years of growth.

A certain variety must be chosen and taking into account the region where the crop will be cultivated. For example, varieties of honeysuckle for the Moscow region differ from those that will grow well in the northern regions of the country.

Tomsk varieties

The forms developed in the NIISS of the city of Tomsk are very popular.

One of these varieties is the Bakchar giant. Honeysuckle has a high yield. The fruits have the shape of an elongated cylinder, the average size of which reaches 4 cm, and the weight is 2 grams. The dense skin allows keeping the berries fresh for a long time. For the same reason, transportation of the crop is allowed and the ability to avoid damage to the berries. The variety is loved by many for the pleasant sweet and sour taste of the fruit. The index of their crumbling after ripening is average. A powerful bush up to 1.9 meters high has an oval crown with sparse branches. Variety Bakcharsky giant – honeysuckle, which is recommended for cultivation in different regions of Russia. The plant belongs to the group of self-infertile forms. Varieties Nymph, Memory of Gidzyuk, Amphora, Pavlovskaya, Lazurnaya are pollinators for the Bakchar giant.

The best Tomsk varieties include Pride Bakchara, Silginka, Parabelskaya and many others.

Honeysuckle varieties for the Moscow region

The forms of the plant, bred for cultivation in the conditions of the Moscow Region and the Central Strip of Russia, are widely known.

The variety Kingfisher with a medium early ripening period appeared in the breeding farms of the Moscow Region. A powerful bush, having an oval crown shape, can reach 2.1 m in height. A distinctive feature of the variety is its high yield. The dense skin of the berries allows you to store them after picking. The fruits have an unusual round-oval shape with a blunt top. Their size reaches 1.6 cm, with a mass of 1.1 g. The berries are unusually pleasant to the taste - they are sweet with a slight sourness.

Honeysuckle varieties such as Kuminovka, Moskovskaya-23 and many others are also suitable for growing in the Moscow region.

Varieties for the Ural region

Honeysuckle varieties for the Urals should be distinguished primarily by their high frost resistance. Severe winters with sharp temperature changes should not adversely affect the growth and development of the plant.

The high-yielding variety Elizaveta with an average ripening period was bred in the city of Chelyabinsk, taking into account all the climatic conditions of the region. A plant with a slightly spreading crown can reach a height of 2.4 m. Fruits are oval, 1.6 cm in size, weighing 1.2 g, have a surprisingly sweet taste and dense skin.

On the sites of the Ural gardeners, you can also find such varieties of honeysuckle as Lenita, Bazhovskaya, Volshebnitsa and others.

Self-infertile varieties

Many plants during the pollination period must interact with other species to obtain a good harvest. Otherwise, the harvest will be minimized or not at all. In other words, the plant requires a pollinator, and the choice will depend on which variety is being considered.

Honeysuckle Nymph, for example, prefers that varieties such as Pavlovskaya, Amphora, Lazurnaya, Chosen One grow on the site besides her.

For the convenience of gardeners, the sale of honeysuckle seedlings in nurseries is made not by single specimens, but by a pair or group of plants. You should not neglect such an offer when buying planting material, since the harvest of berries will directly depend on the selection of varieties.

Decorative forms

Besides edible varieties of honeysuckle, its decorative forms are known. It is to such a variety that Tatarskaya honeysuckle belongs.

The plant gained its distribution due to its unpretentiousness, the ability of shoots to grow rapidly. In addition, Tatarskaya honeysuckle blooms beautifully in the spring for a whole month. The petals can be in different shades of color - from dark pink to white. And in the fall, the bushes are decorated with bright red or yellow berries. In addition, the densely growing branches have a large number of leaves, which are also very attractive. But the plant has one big drawback - its fruits are not only inedible because of the bitter taste, but they are also poisonous.

Due to its ability to grow even in conditions of high air pollution, Tatarskaya honeysuckle is used as a species for landscaping city streets, parks, and public gardens.

The plant is also found in natural conditions, forming dense thickets. In some regions of the country, the shrub grows in the undergrowth of deciduous forests.

Instead of a conclusion

The varieties of honeysuckle described above are not limited to the above list. Breeders have more than a dozen forms of this useful plant. Their work on improving, changing the varieties of honeysuckle does not stop. Its new forms will continue to delight amateur gardeners.