Sugar Pearls Apricot boasts a full-bodied, sweet golden-honey flavor and incredible white, juicy flesh. Totally unlike any apricot (or any other fruit for that matter) you've ever tasted, it is simply bursting with sun-sweetened nectar. Sugar Pearls can bear as quickly as a year after planting and blooms much later than all other apricot varieties, so even if you were too far north to grow apricots before, now's your chance. Plant this variety near Honey Pearls Nectacot to ensure pollination. Fruit ripens in late June to early July. Zones 4 to 7.