Get ready for this easy to grow Blueberry that is as beautiful as it is productive. You’ll love its landscape presence with its great foliage color as new leaves flush a distinct peachy orange color before turning dusky blue-green as they mature. Heavy blooming in May with masses of fragrant, bell shaped flowers, Peach Sorbet produces tons of large, tasty Blueberries in late July and August. If that wasn’t enough to make you love it, Peach Sorbet® finishes the season with a blast of fall foliage color that will have you groping for the right adjective to describe it beauty. Plant in full sun and enjoy the Blueberry fireworks year after year!
Tough and productive, this Blueberry will amaze you with its ability to survive and thrive in the coldest of landscapes and with its ability to produce a bumper crop of small, medium blue colored berries in late July and August. These sweet berries are perfect for fresh eating and for baking and preserves but, as good tasting as the fruit is, ‘North Sky’ might be a better landscape plant. Its dense form, heavy spring bloom, deep green foliage and striking red fall foliage color make it a terrific addition to any home garden, fruiting or ornamental!
Everyone is looking for a dwarf Blueberry to use in the landscape but the varieties available invariably disappoint due to poor fruiting or poor growing. Jelly Bean® changes all that in the form of a dense, compact, small leaved plant that produces masses of medium sized, dark blue, incredibly tasty blue berries in July and early August. It is so prolific and such an easy care, easy to grow plant that you won’t know where to use it first, grouped to form a fruiting small, formal hedge in any sunny garden or in a container where you can pick right from your back door. Add in spectacular fall foliage color and you have a small Blueberry that will be a big winner in your garden.
“Edible Ornamentals” are a hot topic these days, and Cabernet™ Splash is one truly spectacular new introduction. The ever-changing foliage emerges a deep, dark cabernet color, then grows into a mottled cabernet/green as it matures, finally becomming a firey red in the fall. It produces an abundance of medium-sized, delicious berries early to mid-season. Cabernet Splash™ works in deciduous backgrounds, in borders, mass plantings, or as stunning and delicious container planting for the patio.
Compact form is made up of tight, evergreen leaves that stay a lush green all year! Small white flowers bloom in late spring into the summer months and are followed by copious amounts of large, bright red fruits. The fruit is a Lingonberry and can be enjoyed in many dishes that you would use cranberries in or the infamous Lingonberry Jam. The fruits can be eaten right off the plant but be prepared to pucker, they are quite sour and a bit of sugar makes a big difference!
‘Koralle’ is a dense, slow growing, spreading evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves on flat, spreading branches that will bloom in April and May to produce a crop of bright red, glossy, firm fruit that will be ready for harvest in July and August. ‘Koralle’ will surprise you with another round of bloom during the summer as the first group of fruit maturing, forming a considerable crop of berries for harvest in September.
Ligonberries are similar to Cranberries and Blueberries in many ways: each plant is easy to grow in the home landscape, they all love acidic soils and all thrive in containers. Ligonberries are quite different in form, appearance and method of growth as they slowly spread by underground rhizomes and form a low growing, evergreen groundcover. ‘REgal’, like all Lingonberries, blooms twice, unlike its relatives, once in May and then again in July as small pinkish flowers in clusters at the tips of 1-year-old wood. The May bloom produces fruit that ripens in July while the second crop in October, is generally larger and higher quality because of ripening at a cooler time of year. Its deep red fruit is slightly smaller than a Cranberry and can be used in sauces, syrups, jellies, pie fillings tart drinks and even wines or liqueur. ‘Regal’, one of the largest berried and most reliable of Lingonberries and will thrive in half to full day sun.
Stevens’ forms a low, spreading, groundcover with fine textured, glossy green foliage. A profusion of small white flowers appear in early May followed large, bright shiny red Cranberries ready for September harvest. Easy to grow, hardy plant sporting festive red berries. Fruit is loaded with Vitamin C! Great groundcover in the edible landscape.
The lingonberry is a plant with a great history that is virtually unknown. It has been an important food source in the northern hemisphere since the time of the cavemen with its profuse fruit bearing capacity and high vitamin and anti-oxidant content. While nearly forgotten today, it should be a home gardener’s dream with its great look, compact form, double cropping of fruit and incredible ease of care. ‘Koralle’ is a dense, slow growing, spreading evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves on flat, spreading branches that will bloom in April and May to produce a crop of bright red, glossy, firm fruit that will be ready for harvest in July and August. ‘Koralle’ will surprise you with another round of bloom during the summer as the first group of fruit maturing, forming a considerable crop of berries for harvest in September. As you can see, ‘Koralle’, with its grat history, still has the goods to be memorable in your garden as long as you plant it in a sunny, well-drained spot and don’t forget to pick! Eat lingoberries fresh, in prepared desserts or even juiced other fruit for refreashing, healthty drink!
Cranberries are not just for growing in the closest bog as you’ll see when you plant ‘Pilgrim’ in your home landscape. While all Cranberries tolerate wet growing conditions, all you’ll need is a sunny area with moist, well drained soil to raise a bumber crop of large, tart tasty red berries that mature in mid to late fall. You’ll love the fruit but ‘Pilgrim’ has far more going for it than a few berries for your holiday meal! It’s a great, easy care groundcover with teeny dark green everegreen foliage on branches that spread wide while staying quite low. The mid May bloom of tiny pink flowers is attractive and attracting to many butterflies and native insects as a nectar source. Of course, the fruit is just as attractive to our bird friends as to us! Plant ‘Pilgrim’ in groups for a functional, fruitful fabulous native landscape bonanza.