The top 10 landscaping trends for 2024 have notably included an increasing interest in Native and Edible Landscape designs. The benefits and impacts of these landscapes extend far past a visually beautifully outdoor space, and people are seeking to reap those rewards. In the lower southeast region, Vaccinium darrowii (Darrow’s Blueberry) is a plant that checks both these boxes and more for landscape designers.
It is a native evergreen shrub to the scrubby flatwoods, mixed forests, and sandhill areas of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. In the spring, it produces showy white to pinkish bell-shaped flowers, sure to attract many pollinators. The blooms are the precursor to the edible blueberries that begin to emerge in late spring. The eye-catching foliage of Darrow’s Blueberry checks another point of interest box for landscapers. New growth first appears in pink hues, blending into an attractive gradient with the established blueish-green color of its elliptical leaves.
Suitable for Hardiness Zones 8-10, Vaccinium Darrowii is also very drought tolerant and low maintenance, making it a great addition for landscapers designing native or edible landscapes.
Requirements:
Light – Full Sun
Soil – Sandy, Moist, Well-Draining
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If you have a customer that’s interested in edible material that they can utilize in their kitchen, or if you just like to add a little fun aspect to your landscape designs, you should try Viccinium darrowii, which is a wild blueberry. It’s a really cool Plant I have absolutely fallen
In love with it has a beautiful variation in colors with the new growth. It kind of turns to almost like a kind of, has a purple glow to it um kind of reminds me of an Abelia a little bit,
But it also produces blueberries which is really really cool. t’s a really cool aspect to provide to your client’s garden or their landscape. It’s great for, you can utilize it for a hedge row, or you can just do little pockets of it within an edible garden. Give it a try!