Vaccinium corymbosum 'Northblue'
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$27.99
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🌿 General Description
- Type: Deciduous fruit shrub
- Group: Half-high blueberries (hybrid highbush × lowbush)
- Habit: Compact, bushy
👉 Widely used in Nordic gardens and pick-your-own projects.
📏 Height and Width
- Height: 60 to 90 cm (2 to 3 feet)
- Width: 60 to 90 cm
👉 Perfect for:
- small edible flowerbeds
- cultivation rows
- residential gardens
🫐 Fruits
- Color: Dark blue
- Size: Medium
- Taste: Sweet with slight acidity
- Production: Good and regular
👉 Harvest:
- mid to late summer (July-August depending on region)
💡 Very good for:
- fresh consumption
- freezing
- jams
🌸 Flowering
- Small white-pinkish flowers
- Spring
👉 Attracts pollinators (bees are essential)
☀️ Exposure
- Full sun ideal
- Tolerates partial shade, but reduced production
🌱 Soil (IMPORTANT)
- Acidic soil mandatory (pH 4.5 to 5.5)
- Soil rich in organic matter
- Well-drained
👉 Without acidic soil = low production
❄️ Hardiness
-
Zone 3 to 7
👉 Perfect for Quebec (very reliable)
💧 Care
- Regular watering (especially young plants)
- Mulch recommended (pine needles, wood chips)
- Light pruning after a few years
🛡️ Resistance
- Very good winter hardiness
- Good general disease resistance
- Low maintenance once established