Grow-your-own gardeners are becoming more and more interested in unusual fruits - and shoppers, too, are increasingly looking out for something different. So what about a honeysuckle with edible fruits?!
The Honeyberry produces fruits which look rather like large bullet-shaped blueberries with that same colour and that same dusty bloom. Click on the picture to see them more 
closely. They taste rather like blueberries too and they can be eaten straight from the bush, made into jam or ice cream and they also freeze well. They are also said to make good juice.
Botanically speaking the Honeyberry is Lonicera caerulea var. kamtschatica and it originates in the Kamtschatka Peninsula in north east Siberia which is exceptionally cold - so it's certainly very hardy. The little bushes only reach about 90cm in height, are rarely troubled by disease and, once established, are drought resistant. The flowers are small and not especially showy, but the berries ripen earlier than most fruits and the seeds are so tiny you don't notice them. Just one thing to keep in mind: you need two plants to pollinate each other. Sounds well worth trying.
Honeyberry is available now from DT Brown.
Also new from DT Brown, amongst more traditional fruits, is a new raspberry called ‘Cascade Delight'. 
Reckoned to be an improvement on ‘Tumaleen', which is the star of the current Wisley trial of raspberries, the fruit is said to be 20% larger and firmer too. It's also said to grow much better than other raspberries in wet conditions. It's so new that it wasn't available when the Wisley trial was first planted; plants were added to the trial last year but it has not yet begun cropping. Raspberry ‘Cascade Delight' is available now from DT Brown.