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VACCINIUM (Blueberry) |
| Blueberries are easy to grow plants that can be used either for fruit production, for their landscape value, or both. Plant in full sun, well drained, acidic soil that has a large amount of peat moss content. |
| VACCINIUM angustifolium |
Lowbush Blueberry |
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| Height: 6-24" Width: 24"+ | Zone: 3 |
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| Low, straggly, open-growing shrub. The foliage is lustrous dark to blue-green in summer changing to bronze, scarlet, and crimson in fall. Great naturalizing plant and ground cover. Grows well in acid poor soils. Edible bluish black berries. | |||
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| VACCINIUM corymbosum |
Highbush Blueberry |
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| Height: 6-12' | Zone: 3 |
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| Upright multi-stemmed shrub with spreading branches forming a rounded dense outline. Bluish-green foliage giving an array of fall colors. The plant gets pinkish-white urn shaped flowers in May. Just a few plants provide buckets of edible fruit. | |||
| #2 container 18-24" - #3 container 2-3' - #5 container 3-4' B & B 4-5' B & B 5-6' B & B |
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