Vaccinium darrowii 'John Blue' Vines is one of the odd

is one of the odd and lovely surprises of the Florida scrub

so 'Mariesii' earns the visits of bees and other pollinators that a snowball hydrangea cannot

and pair the striped giants with simple green and blue-green companions that keep the peppermint flowers from having to compete

or a large trellis to climb

Vaccinium darrowii 'John Blue' Vines is one of the oddDarrow's blueberry is the silver leaved evergreen of the group, a low, fine textured native of the pine flatwoods and sandy scrub from southern Georgia through Florida to eastern Louisiana. The species honors George M. Darrow, the United States Department of Agriculture scientist whose breeding work built much of the modern blueberry, and the wild plant has passed its own heat tolerance into many of today's Southern highbush cultivars. 'John Blue' is