{"id":5314,"date":"2012-02-17T05:23:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2012-05-09T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T11:41:10","slug":"different-fruit-goji-and-honey-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/different-fruit-goji-and-honey-berry\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Fruit Goji and Honey Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Goji<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are a gardener that likes to try something a bit different then there are two less common fruit that you can consider even in England. <\/p>\n

Goji Berry<\/strong> was the health craze of last year and you can grow this ‘Superfruit’ in your own garden from seed or more rapidly from a 2 year old plant. Shrubs grow to 6 feet tall and have trumpet-shaped white or purple flowers in July August. They can be grown in a border and if pruned to 4 feet they create a thick bush with ample fruit. Coming from the Himalayas, once established, they are hardy and can take even poor soil conditions fruiting best in full sun. The berries will set in autumn and ripen to sweet, juicy, red fruit with a shiny in appearance. The flowers will continue to bloom until the first frosts.
\nGemeiner Bocksdorn in German Lycium barbarum or the Goji berry is a memeber of the Solanaceae family the fruits of which are often poisonous eg Potato.<\/p>\n

\"Honeyberry<\/a>
\nLonicera Caerulea Honey Berry in Flower.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honey Berry <\/strong>are varieties of edible Lonicera that produce sweet blueberry like fruit that have been eaten for ages in their native Siberia. Fruiting early in the year from June the plants are long lived. For good pollination it is worth planting varieties Lonicera Kamschatika and Lonicera Caerulea together. Not all Lonicera berries are edible so buy your stock from a reputable nursery.<\/p>\n

\"Gemeiner<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo Credits
\nHoneyberry flowers 3 by Fluffymuppet CC BY-NC 2.0
\nDuke of Argyll’s Teaplant (Lycium barbarum) by Phil Sellens, CC BY 2.0
\nGemeiner Bocksdorn by Gertrud K. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Duke<\/a>
\nDuke of Argyll’s Teaplant (Lycium barbarum)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are a gardener that likes to try something a bit different then here are two unusual fruit to grow even in the UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}