Sugar Mountain Blue honeyberry
Lonicera caerulea 'Sugar Mountain Blue'
USDA zones3 to 6
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
Size5 to 6 feet tall5 to 6 feet wide
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
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Notes
'Sugar Mountain Blue' honeyberry (Lonicera caerulea 'Sugar Mountain Blue') is a shrub for hedges, food gardens, and low maintenance plantings. It is hardy to USDA zone 3, or down to -40°F (-40°C). This plant likes full or part sun and average to moist soil of most types. Its fragrant flowers open in spring and again in summer, and birds visit the shrub. It reaches about 5 to 6 feet tall and wide, and it tolerates drought.
Pairs well with Miss Kim lilac, Orange daylily, Sedge, and Carlton daffodil.