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The Bluecrop Northern Highbush Blueberry Plant is a widely grown, mid-season variety . The Bluecrop Blueberry receives high marks for adaptability, consistent production, top quality fruit, and disease resistance. It produces large, sweet berries on 4-6 foot tall upright growing bushes.
Bluejay Northern Highbush Blueberry has a delicately sweet flavor and the incredible ability to retain quality while hanging on the bush for extended periods of time. After harvest the branches turn bright yellow and the leaves change from light green to shades of yellow and orange.
A new, mid to late producing blueberry variety generating the largest berry, almost grape size, on the market today. A strong producer of extra large, light blue fruit that is both sweet and tasty. Bears the first part of August.
Cold Hardy zones 3-6
The fruits of the Chandler Blueberry are HUGE! Each berry will encompass a nickel, with some being the size of a quarter. The fruits are a pleasure to eat, having the taste of the blueberries found in the wild, only in a giant size berry. We highly recommend the berries to be eaten fresh from the bushes to enjoy the mouth watering sweet flavors. The fruits of Chandler ripen in mid to late season when many varieties have completed their fruiting time. Chandler berries can be enjoyed over a 6 week
Duke blueberry is an early-season variety and is extremely popular in the Mid-Atlantic region. It is high-yielding and hardy. The attractive fruit is medium to large, light blue, and slightly tart. Berries maintain their uniform quality better than most other varieties. Duke grows upright to a height of 4–6 feet.
Big and flavorful. This late-season variety will give you ½” berries that are firm, easy-to-pick and perfect for fresh eating or cooking. Provides seasonal interest with its attractive bright burgundy stems. Blooms late to avoid late spring frosts. Cold-hardy. Ripens in August. Self-pollinating.
Jelly Bean® has large, flavorful blueberries mid-summer that taste like sweet, homemade, blueberry jelly. The foliage is unlike other blueberries and has unique, elongated, green leaves with highlights of red in cooler climates. Try a mini-hedge along a pathway, in the landscape or in decorative patio containers.
Legacy (northern highbush): It keeps its leaves through the winter in milder climate zones staying evergreen. Large clusters of delicious sweet berries. Very productive. Easy to grow. Stands 5-6 ft tall with an open spreading shape. Legacy is famous for its unique flavor. Berries are medium-large and form big clusters. High yields. DELICIOUS! Fresh eating and processing.
Patriot Northern Highbush Blueberry Plant is a great choice for home-growers with limited space, due to its low growing nature of only 3-5 feet tall and wide. Though a bit smaller, the Patriot Blueberry Plant produces a consistent and abundant crop of large, slightly tangy, delicious blueberries. Extremely cold hardy.
This exciting, compact dwarf variety is evergreen in most climates with glossy leaves that range from pink to orange to emerald green, turning deep purple in winter; abundant crop of sweet blueberries in mid summer; great for garden or patio
Edible Qualities
It produces clusters of blue round berries which are usually ready for picking from early to mid summer. The berries have a sweet taste and a juicy texture.
18 to 24 inches tall and wide
The Top Hat Blueberry is a dwarf variety plant that grows to 1-2 feet in height. The Top Hat is an ideal solution for those who love fresh blueberries, but don’t have space for a garden (or they have a garden that can’t accommodate full-size blueberries) Don't let the size fool you because it delivers blueberries that are just as large and that pack just as much flavor as traditional-sized blueberry shrubs.
Spartan is one of the most attractive, easy to pick and best flavored SWEET blueberries. It is just perfect for farm market and for home gardeners. Spartan requires well drained soils and abundant organic matter. It has very large berries, delicious. Mature size is 4-6 feet.
An early season blueberry with rave reviews! This vigorous Northern-Southern cross produces a heavy crop of sweet, juicy, berries early in the blueberry season — and, in mild areas, a lighter second crop develops later that same year. Yields up to 15 pounds per plant.
Blackberry, Boysenberry
Baby Cakes® is a dwarf, thornless blackberry perfect for patio pots with its compact habit. In summer, large, classic and sweet tasting berries present on the plant in a fireworks-like spray of fruit. In most regions, this blackberry will produce twice in one season!
This sweet thornless blackberry owes its 'Triple Crown' moniker to its three crowning attributes – excellent flavor, productivity and vigor! The jumbo-sized blackberries are firm and glossy, and as big as a quarter, sometimes larger. They're the best-tasting blackberry we've tried and have a wonderfully complex sweet flavor with no hint of the acidic tang that's present in other varieties. Triple Crown is also thornless—so picking is easy. Triple Crown begins to ripen in mid-July. The plants gro
Large, nearly seedless berries, excellent made into jam.
A sweet treat in midsummer! The very large, almost seedless, sweet, dark maroon-colored berries boast a sweet-tart flavor and are excellent in jams and jellies, wine, preserves and for fresh eating. Thornless boysenberry canes produce 4-6 quarts per plant at maturity. The trailing canes grow 4-6 ft. tall. Boysenberries are harvested when the fruits drop from the vine at the slightest touch. Boysenberries don't keep well—so the best way to e
Logan, Marion & Tay
Large, dark wine red berries ripen from July to September. Widely grown in Oregon and Washington, it is a vigorous, trailing plant that is thornless and easy to grow. A favorite for making syrup, preserves and desserts.
Sweet-tart berries ideal for fresh eating,
have slightly firmer texture than many blackberries. Vigorous trailing plants are a treat to the eye and the round blackberry-like fruits are a treat to the taste buds! Medium-large sized berries have a delicious sweet-tart flavor that is perfect for baking, jams, jellies, freezing and fresh eating! Very rich in vitamins. Ripening in mid July to mid August. Zones 4-9.
Originating from Scotland the tayberry is a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry. It’s fruit is larger and juicier and has a unique sweet/tart flavor that lends itself to fresh eating, jams, jellies and pies. It is closely related to the loganberry and was originally created as an improved loganberry. The fruit is an attractive magenta to purple color and matures later in the summer than blackberries and has one large harvest per year.
Baby Cakes® is a dwarf, thornless blackberry perfect for patio pots with its compact habit. In summer, large, classic and sweet tasting berries present on the plant in a fireworks-like spray of fruit. In most regions, this blackberry will produce twice in one season!
This sweet thornless blackberry owes its 'Triple Crown' moniker to its three crowning attributes – excellent flavor, productivity and vigor! The jumbo-sized blackberries are firm and glossy, and as big as a quarter, sometimes larger. They're the best-tasting blackberry we've tried and have a wonderfully complex sweet flavor with no hint of the acidic tang that's present in other varieties. Triple Crown is also thornless—so picking is easy. Triple Crown begins to ripen in mid-July. The plants gro
Heritage everbearing red raspberry is a favorite for its flavor, firmness and fruit size. This variety produces abundant crops of large, sweet, dark red berries that are perfect for eating fresh, canning, freezing, or making jams and jellies. These self-supporting, upright canes are hearty enough to grow in poor soil, but requires a well-drained site.
This bush has two harvest seasons, with a moderate yield in July and a heavy yield in September until frost, making them everbearing. Floricane ber
Big on black-raspberry flavor, small on seeds. Strong, stout canes yield large, firm, and juicy berries — great for making jams or jellies, or eating fresh. Cold-hardy. Ripens in August. Self-pollinating.
Note: Do not plant Red, Gold or Purple raspberries within 75-100 feet of Black raspberries. Black raspberries may be more susceptible to viral diseases carried by aphids to and from nearby raspberry plants.
This revolutionary, thornless raspberry offers everyone a chance to enjoy raspberries like never before! Raspberry Shortcake® is compact, with a rounded growth habit, and it thrives in a patio pot or in the landscape. Perfect for children and adults, this carefree, nutritious raspberry requires no staking or big garden spaces. Its sweet, vanilla flavor is uniquely delicious!
The canes are thorny and long. The fruit is large, of high quality, and is the sweetest of all the purple raspberries. Good for fresh eating and excellent for jams and jellies. Royalty can be picked slightly immature as a firm red berry. Eludes spring frost damage, as it is a late-season variety. It has multiple insect resistances, including immunity to raspberry aphid, which should help to extend the productive life of the planting.
Lingonberries are a creeping shrub with tart and tangy, red berries closely related to highbush blueberries and cranberries.
Due to their tartness and acidity when picked fresh, they are often sweetened and cooked into jams, syrups, and baked goods. They can be eaten for more savory purposes, such as being made into a sweet and tangy sauce to be served with potatoes, grains and meats, similar to cranberry sauce.
They are high in anthocyanin, antioxidants and vitamins A, C, and B.
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