DWARF BLUEBERRY SEEDS Bonsai Edible

LATIN NAME: Vaccinium corymbosum

COMMON NAME: Highbush Blueberry

The blueberry bushes set their round, blue-grey, powdery fruits among the small, oval leaves, and the small, urn-shaped, pink-white flowers hang in the clusters. The low, compact, bushy, deciduous shrub carries the small, oval, glossy, dark-green leaves, turning to the reds of the autumn, and the small, urn-shaped, pink-white flowers in the tight clusters through the mid-spring, one of the fine, quiet sights of the cool garden, drawing the bees, to be followed by the round, blue-grey, powdery, sweet fruits. The fruits have a very long record as the fine, juicy berries of the cool tables, and the shrub is a fine, historic presence of the cool garden. It is a shrub of the open, sunny to lightly shaded, deep, moist, acid, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The blueberry is a historic subject of the plant science, and the blue-grey fruits keep showing up in the work on the cool-season berries. The way the round, blue-grey, powdery fruits form from the small, urn-shaped, pink-white flowers has been studied closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the cool-season berries, the acid-soil shrubs and the members of the heath family. The small, oval leaves and the compact habit have also made it a fine study shrub, and the blueberry is a regular subject of the work on the blue-grey fruits of the cool world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The blueberry is a fine, quiet shrub of the cool garden and the berry patch. The round, blue-grey, powdery, sweet fruits have a very long record as the fine, juicy berries of the cool tables, the fresh fruits coming to the bowls, the pies, the jams, the muffins and the cool drinks of the old kitchens, while the small, urn-shaped, pink-white flowers open through the mid-spring, drawing the bees, and the leaves turn to the reds of the autumn. It is one of the fine choices for the cool garden, the berry patch and the study collection, and it has been written up in the culinary and the agricultural papers for the blue-grey fruits and the very long history. It is a fine, quiet shrub of the open, sunny to lightly shaded, deep, moist, acid, well-drained garden.

Give the young plants the acid, peaty mix and the light shade, and the berries will come in the years to come.

To grow the blueberry from seed, sow the tiny, brown seeds across the surface of the pot of moist, gritty soil, without covering them, keep the pot in a bright, open spot and water gently, then pot the young plants on into the acid, peaty mix. The seedlings thread up within a few weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun or the light shade and the deep, moist, acid, well-drained ground, the blue-grey fruits will come in the years to come.

Topper Blueberry simply has to be seen to be believed. Here is a beautiful, moundshaped, compact shrub that is ideal for containers and small spaces, loaded with so many flowers in spring it looks like a white-flowering heather, followed by hundreds of delicious full-size blueberry fruits that make it doubly decorative. Round, firm, flavorful fruits are a dusky blue just like those you find in the stores – perfect for fresh eating, making jam and baking into muffins or pies.