Humans and landscape critters alike will find it hard to resist this American Beauties selection. Robust and rounded, ‘Blue Jay’ is easy to grow, tolerating dry acidic, poor soils and partial shade while yielding an impressive crop of deep blue, sizable berries in August. Not only do humans love the fruit, countless songbirds and small mammals count it as one of their favorite foods, making it a magnet for wildlife in the landscape while native bees and butterflies seek out the nectar from its May flowering. ‘Blue Jay’ also provides outstanding cover for these birds and mammals, all while looking great in the landscape with deep green foliage that puts on a remarkable purplish-red fall show. Plant ‘Blue Jay’ singly or in groups and watch your landscape come alive.

Vigorous and rounded, this selection is a strong, dependable producer of mild tasting, medium-sized, powder blue fruit that mature in mid season. A superb fall foliage show and bright yellow winter twig color add to the landscape attractiveness of this selection.

Big, firm, berries come your way not once but twice during the growing season making your garden even more productive! The largest crop arrives in July for your eating pleasure but September sees a smaller but just as tasty crop to pick!

You’ll be shouting “U-reka” as you start off the Blueberry picking season with a bang with this superlative introduction from New Zealand. There is nothing like picking your own fresh Blueberries and ‘Reka’ is the perfect plant for getting all that picking started with masses of medium-sized, rich flavored berries that you’ll say are the best you’ve ever tasted. Will you be saying that because they are the first fresh ones you’ve tasted since last year?? Who knows but they are outstanding for eating right off the plant or fresh for breakfast, lunch or dessert! ‘Reka’, like all Blueberries, is easy to grow wanting full sun, moist, well-drained soil, and little else. Because of its early fruit, it will bloom slightly earlier in May meaning you may need to protect flowers from frost on cold nights along with protecting ripe fruit from your local birds who will be looking forward to picking ‘Reka’ in early July as much as you!

Another small space wonder, ‘Polaris’ will thrill with its tight form, heavy producing ability and sweet, sweet berry taste. ‘Polaris’ is known as a ‘half-high’ type of Blueberry, combining the denseness of lowbush selections with the fruit size and larger berry yeilds of the highbush selections. The result is a plant that will cover itself with fragrant, white, bell shaped flowers in early May and with medium sized, powder blue, aromatic, extremely sweet tasting fruit in late July and early August. It is one of the earliest maturing of the Blueberries meaning that you might have to fight off more than the birds for its sweet fruit as hungry family members will be looking to outwit you for their year’s first taste of fresh Blueberries! ‘Polaris’ is such a low maintenance plant and will even reward you and your garden with brilliant orange-red fall foliage color!

This highbush blueberry boasts delicious cherry-sized blueberries in the mid-to-late season. You’ll get more than just great flavor with this tall-growing variety: dainty, white bell-shaped flowers embellish this bush in May, and its dark green leaves turn reddish-purple in the fall. Red stems stand out against the winter landscape, polishing off the list of ornamental qualities possessed by this native treasure.

A new, mid to late producing blueberry variety generating the largest berry 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.

It’s hard to go wrong with this selection of our native lowbush blueberry for ease of growth and fruiting. ‘Northern Glory’ is a dense, spreading plant that thrives in sandy, acid soils in the wild. Its compact branching will fill with small, white, fragant, bell shaped flowers in early May followed by masses of small blueberries that ripen to dark blue, sweet tasting perfection by late July and early August. While the fruit on lowbush blueberry types like ‘Northern Glory’ is far smaller than that of highbush types, it’s just as sweet, tasty and profuse making it a little fruting machine for your edible garden. Even better, it’s tolerant of partial shade and poor soil conditions while able to accommodate smaller spaces in your garden than larger highbush varieties will. Plant ‘Northern Glory’ in groups for even more fruting power!

Selected at the University of Maine for its amazing red fall foliage color, this native plant goes beyond fruiting…it’s an outstanding landscape plant that just happens to produce an amazing amount of small, deep blue, tasty fruit in July. Beyond being a gastronomic delight for humans and for landscape critters of many sizes and species, ‘Burgundy’ is a great plant for massing in sunny, well drained, sandy locations that allow it become an unbroken swath of beauty with deep green foliage in the summer followed by a red foliage display in fall that will make you think the ground is ablaze! Even in winter its burning red stems provide a blazing contrast to the snow!

It would be hard to find a plant that has more admirers or uses than this American Beauties selection. Its dense, low, spreading, compact form makes it an idea plant for a multitude of landscape uses as a front of the landscape planting or as a mass planting in any sunny to partial shaded area. Even better than its versatility, this plant is a magnet to native bees and butterflies seeking out the nectar from its small white flowers in May and to birds and small mammals in the summer for that multitude of small, sweet, dark blue fruit. You will prize this plant as much as these landscape creatures especially when you consider how it tolerates dry, acid, poor soils and how it puts on a fiery orange-red to purply-red fall foliage color that looks like someone set the ground on fire!