A Grower Perspective

Today is the ninth of February and I’ll bet you’re wondering right now what blueberries plants look like this time of year. Okay you weren’t actually thinking about that so I’ll tell you. They look beautiful. Some varieties are bare of leaves and the stems range in color from bright red to a rich green, some varieties maintain their leaves through out the year and the leaf color, for example, on the Vaccinium corybosum‘Sunshine Blue’ is verdigris, a bluish green with a blush of red. Vaccinium corymbosum ‘Legacy’ is also evergreen and the leaves on this bush are a bronzy green. Our native evergreen huckleberry, Vaccinium ovatum, as the name suggests is a glossy green year round, very adaptable, very useful (and tasty) garden plant. Some of the brighter twigged blueberries are Vaccinium corybosum ‘Duke’ and Vaccinium corybosum ‘Patriot’. Whether you are growing fields of blueberries or just a few varieties in your city garden you will enjoy their winter beauty.