A Grower Perspective

A customer just came in and purchased blueberry plants for a landscape project, integrating a typically food plant into his ornamental garden. This is often called edible landscaping. Most food plants have some aesthetic quality and so can be added to your garden. Here is our suggestion for today; Draper Blueberry. Draper tastes great, sweet and aromatic, is large and easy to pick, is thick skinned and does not split, ripens mid-season (July) and as we all know is full of antioxidants (which are good for you). It grows four to eight feet high and has a golden autumn leaf color. Grow it in full sun to partial shade. Blueberries have year round beauty in the garden and delicious food in the summer.