Now more than ever is the time to grow something tasty from home and this is your chance to grow your very own crop of incredibly tasty blueberries! Often called a 'super food', blueberries are believed to carry all manner of health benefits and are recommended by health experts and dietitians accordingly. Packed full of vitamins and minerals as well as antioxidants, they are not only really good for you, but they taste great too. Besides tasting great, blueberries will also provide true season-long interest for your garden with wonderfully fragrant tubular blossom in spring, followed by delicious fruits that form and colour up ready for picking from June onwards and you can expect several kilos of tasty fruit each season once the bush is established. In autumn, after fruiting has finished, the foliage turns to fiery red before falling. Grow in full sun for the tastiest fruit, and unless you have acidic soil use ericaceous compost, as blueberries are intolerant to lime. Blueberries are also excellent for growing in pots and make superb patio plants. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting and growing to a height of 1.5 (5ft) and a spread of 1m (3ft).
Grow a large bountiful crop with this outstanding collection of blueberry bushes. Blueberries are packed with health-boosting compounds and are especially delicious in pies, muffins and jams. These sturdy shrubs make attractive features for the patio or acidic borders, bearing masses of sweetly scented creamy white flowers in spring, and fiery crimson autumn foliage. Height and spread: Up to 180cm
This excellent mid season variety, produces rich flavoured fruit in abundance in August. Fully hardy, this compact shrub provides interest all year round with elegant white flowers in spring, and colourful foliage set against red stems in the winter.
Blueberry 'Brigitta' is a late season variety producing large, light blue fruits on sturdy upright bushes. The firm, tasty fruits ripen in late August and have a crisp texture, making them ideal for freezing as well as eating fresh from the bush.
Blueberry 'Chandler' produces a wealth large, firm berries up to 2g each in weight and 20mm (¾inch) in diameter. The delicious, juicy fruits are produced from the beginning of August until mid September.
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The firm, medium to large, light blue berries of Blueberry 'Duke' have a mildly sweet flavour and retain their fresh quality longer than most varieties. 'Duke' blooms late, which protects the blossoms from the spring frost, but the berries then ripen early. The bushes are upright-growing, but the branches will droop to the ground when laden with fruit, often yielding over 20lbs per bush when mature. Supplied in 9cm pots.
Early fruiting and self fertile variety, that bears sweetly flavoured blueberries. Fruit can be harvested from early July, a year from planting. It's also an attractive shrub, that displays pretty white flowers in spring, and bright red foliage in autumn too. Ht. 1.8m. Supplied in 1.5 litre pots.
One of the best late season Blueberry varieties available! The white flowers have a pretty, pink tint that makes an attractive spring display. As summer progresses, Blueberry 'Elliot' boasts excellent crops of flavoursome, firm berries - delicious eaten fresh or added to jams and preserves.
Blueberries are becoming increasingly popular and well known for their high levels of Vitamin C and health boosting compounds. Why not grow your own with our Blueberry 'Full Season Collection'. Specially selected to give you the longest cropping season, these hardy fruit bushes will fruit from July right through to September. Better still, Blueberry plant make an attractive addition to the garden with their sweetly fragrant, creamy-white flowers and vibrant autumn foliage. Perfect for acid borders or growing in containers of ericaeous compost.
Already creating a sensation in the USA, Blueberry 'Pink Sapphire'? is a remarkable new variety of blueberry that produces abundant clusters of bright pink berries from late July to August. The berries have a lovely sweet flavour and firm texture; delicious added to pies, muffins or other desserts for something a bit different! The beautiful spring displays of pale white-pink, bell-shaped flowers are followed by fiery orange foliage in the autumn, making this hardy shrub an attractive addition to patio containers or acidic borders.
This superb mid to late season variety produces an abundance of delicious, juicy berries in late summer; fantastic for extending the fruiting season when grown with an early-maturing variety. Clusters of pretty white, bell-shaped flowers in spring are followed by fiery red foliage in the autumn, making this a valuable hardy shrub for seasonal interest in the garden. Blueberry 'Powder Blue' is an attractive addition to patio containers or acidic borders, and the fruits are a tasty addition to jams, pies and muffins. Height and spread if left unpruned: 2.5m (8'). Supplied in a 9cm pot.