The LSU AgCenter will soon trumpet the newest additions to the Louisiana Super Plant list, and professor Allen Owings of the Hammond Research Station says they should be available in nurseries in the ...
In the last few weeks of March I watched some very busy bees visiting flowers of the native highbush blueberry bush planted just outside my home office window. They also visited the hybrid rabbiteye ...
When most people think about blueberry bushes (Vaccinium spp.), the fruit tends to get all of the attention. Yet the true magic of this shrub arrives well before any berries, when its early spring ...
Florida blueberries are in our grocery stores. farmers markets, plus local blueberry farms are open for business. For people that might like to grow their own, blueberry plants can be purchased from ...
DENVER — Honeybees may be the world’s most famous pollinator, but a new study shows that blueberry blooms reduce the insects to improvisational klutzes. Not useless ones though. Pollination ...
Blueberry plants host diverse fungal communities on their aboveground tissues, yet how these communities shift across flower and fruit development has remained unclear. This study identifies how ...
Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs ...
CORVALLIS -- Moderate pruning of highbush blueberries done every year can make the difference between a mediocre and a bumper crop -- and production of quality fruit. Highbush blueberry, a native of ...