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How to Grow and Care for Blueberry Bushes
20.06.2023 - 10:01 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
How to Grow and Care for Blueberry Bushes Vaccinium spp.Blueberries are popular with home gardeners because, let’s face it, they’re delicious. But while the berries get most of the attention, the bushes are beautiful plants in their own right.
Blueberry plants bloom during mid- to late spring – typically in May or June, depending on the species and cultivar – with showy white, pink, or purple flowers.
As the blossoms give way to fruit in the summer, typically July and August, dark green leaves with light undersides provide contrast against the ripening light to dark blue berries.
In the fall, the foliage turns red, orange, purple, yellow, or a mixture of these colors.
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There are five common types of blueberry plants out there, beginning with the most popular in commercial cultivation, the northern highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum).
Next we have the southern highbush, which is a hybrid of V. corymbosum and a native species from Florida known as the evergreen blueberry, V. darrowii.
Then there is the lowbush species (V. angustifolium), which grows low to the ground, staying under two feet tall. It’s native across the US and Canada and the type that people often forage in the wild.
And there is also the rabbiteye species, V. virgatum. These grow native across the southern US and can reach up to 20 feet tall.
Finally, there is the half-high, which is a hybrid of lowbush and highbush blueberries.
Cultivars of each species have been bred to produce fruit that matures at different times – early, midseason, or late.
There’s a lot of interesting and useful information about growing blueberries to cover, so let’s jump right in!
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