HIGHBUSH VARIETIES
There are dozens of blueberry varieties available, many of them regional in their adaptation.
Highbush. Most fresh-market blueberries are the highbush type (V. corymbosum), so named for the 6-foot-high plants on which they are borne. Northern and southern subtypes of highbush blueberries are available.
Highbush (or Northern Highbush): Usually recommended for colder climates. Will self-pollinate, but yield and size is improved with cross pollination.
Highbush: 5 to 6 feet tall and 7 to 8 feet wide.
Lowbush: 2 to 4 feet tall, 3 to 4 feet wide.
Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum). John calls this the perfect landscape plant for his area. It offers flowers, fruit, and fall color. Melanie makes blueberry muffins and serves them with honey from the couple's three beehives.
Highbush blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum) are those usually found in the produce department of your grocery. As you might expect, they are named because the bushes grow to 6-feet in height. Fruits are large, from ½ to an inch in diameter.
Northern Highbush - Southern Highbush - Rabbiteye
Northern Highbush - (Central and Northern Arkansas) ...
American highbush cranberry's brilliant scarlet fruit decorates the landscape with its shimmering berries that last throughout the winter.
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)
I never thought about the plant itself as anything other than a generator of tasty treats. Years later, a trip to the New Jersey Pinelands cast the shrub in a new light.
Of all plants considered for edible landscaping, blueberries are among the most attractive - especially the highbush types (Vaccinium corymbosum). These shrubs have distinctive gray bark and are covered with white, lantern-like flowers in spring.
Bluecrop and Berkeley highbush blueberry (Vaccinium darrowi 'Blue Crop' and 'Berkeley', two each of two cultivars for cross-pollination, plant 3-1/2 feet apart in acidic soil
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Here, a highbush blueberry turns flaming red and vies for attention with a river of ornamental golden Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'), with its striped green-and-chartreuse leaves.
There are three basic varieties, northern highbush, rabbiteye, and southern highbush. Each are suited for different climates and you should research which is best for your climate.
-- Other types of blueberries include highbush and rabbiteye
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Other types of blueberries, such as highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum) grow in Michigan, North and South Carolina, Oregon, Virginia and Washington, while lowbush blueberries (V. angustifolium) are native to Maine and Alaska - just to name a few.
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