Skip to content
Fall Plants Shipping Now - Click Here
Fall Plants Shipping Now - Click Here
Yezberry® MAXIE™-Berries-Raintree Prop-2 Quart Pot-

Yezberry® MAXIE™

$29.99 - $29.99
$29.99
$29.99 - $29.99
$29.99
SKU D721Q

Lonicera caerulea 'Kuchi' 

Grow a berry bush with serious flavor—not just a boring hedge! Yezberry MAXIE™ Japanese haskap (aka honeyberry) honors breeder Dr. Maxine Thompson and gives cold region and maritime gardeners an easy treat in earliest summer. With a tangy flavor that's like a raspberry with a bit of earthy blackberry, when the berries are dark blue through-and-through is the time to enjoy them. Yezberry is a newer category of honeyberry from an exclusively Japanese subspecies from Hokkaido (formerly called Yez Island), and these late-blooming varieties match up reliably with each other. Plan to buy them in sets for heavier yields!

Pair with any other variety of Yezberry for reliable pollination. Yezberry is developed for slightly warmer regions than most haskaps, and is better suited for cool maritime locations. Bushes tend to go into early dormancy when temperatures are consistently above 86F, so not for hot summer climates. Can prefer afternoon shade in long-summer regions.

Hardy to USDA Zone: 2

Mature Height: 5’- 6'

Sun: Full Sun to Afternoon Shade in Warmer Areas

Ripening Time: Early Summer

Pollination: Requires a different Yezberry variety planted nearby.

Size: 2 Quart Pot
×

NOTIFY ME WHEN AVAILABLE

We'll notify you when this product is back in stock.

You will receive a notification once this product is back in stock

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Ask a Question

  • Can my honeyberries cross pollinate the yezberries?

    In theory late blooming honeyberries will cross pollinate, but its not clear if the Yezberry will line up just right.

  • hardiness zone?

    Hardy to USDA Zone 3.

  • Spokane ok for this? summers are hotter now than USDA notes. Should I plant with "Solo"?

    A good question! Yezberry, which is a haskap/honeyberry, doesn't do well in temperatures over 86 degrees (for more than a week) and may go into early dormancy (in the middle summer and look dead). If you decide to try it, Solo is a good partner for pollination.

  • what plant zones? how big does this bush get?

    Hardy to USDA Zone 3. Mature size is roughly 6 feet tall by 6 feet wide.

  • What zone?

    Hardy to USDA Zone 3

Customer Reviews

Based on 1 review
100%
(1)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
M
Maurice H.
nice plant

Got this plant early spring. it was a good healthy plant with a good root system and healthy foliage. I put it in the ground right away and it kind of struggled for the first month and a half. Then it settled in and is doing well. We had some mid 90s weather in august. I expected it to go dormant as many people say hascaps do over 85 but it did not. It has pun on a good first summers growth and is still going well. It has met my expectations. I also have a Solo that is doing almost as good.