The Yello! Berryblue Blueberry® is a brand new variety that is both ornamental and productive. Flowering occurs in early May, featuring charming little white bells edged with pink.
From July to August, this American blueberry bush produces large, sweet, and fragrant blue fruits. Finally, it is in autumn that the bush stands out the most, as its deciduous foliage takes on a stunning coppery orange hue before falling.
Extremely cold-resistant, this small fruit tree will not exceed 1.25 m in height and 80 cm in width, making it ideal for small spaces or even container growing. Moreover, it is a self-fertile variety: it does not require another blueberry bush nearby to produce fruit.
Although easy to grow, blueberries require specific growing conditions: an acid soil (pH between 4 and 5), light, rich in humus, and a location that is somewhat shaded. These qualities were lacking in my garden, which has heavy, clayey, and neutral soil. The blueberry harvest was off to a poor start! I improved my soil at the time of planting the blueberry bush with well-decomposed compost and by mixing in some gravel with the extracted soil. An addition of heather soil was also necessary to provide acidity. If you do not have such conditions in your garden, plant it in partial shade, in a container filled with forest heather soil.
It was only natural that I paired my blueberry bush with other heather soil shrubs: Rhododendrons and Azaleas, Camellias, Andromedas, Cranberries and red bilberries that require the same growing conditions.
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