Blueberry Bed!

[grin_bear]

We finally got our blueberry bed built and the blueberry bushes installed. It is our first raised bed and a prototype for the rest of the garden beds we hope to build this summer, for use next year. It was rather exhausting work, but fun results! :)

Comments

[bailey36]

really nice, will you build me one?

[grin_bear]

Only if you are rich and/or a massage artist. LOL

[bailey36]

nope and nope. sigh

[trbll]

Very nice! Appreciate your labor and hope your plants produce all you want and then some!

[grin_bear]

Thank you! Supposedly these cultivars (Northland and North Blue) produce 7-9 quarts per bush. Drooooooooooooool

[grin_bear]

Thank you! I wish I could have made something more permanent but these should tide us through the next few years anyway.

[eqfe]

Nicely done!

[grin_bear]

Thanks!

[freyaw]

The flower looks like a Geraldton Wax to me - native to Australia, the cut flowers last for aaaaages. Depending on the variety, they can grow up to 3 or 4 metres as a small shrubby tree - although if you've got a short one, of course, it won't!

They are ridiculously easy to grow here in Adelaide - once established, they are very drought hardy, which is really important - but I have no idea how well they do in frost. Grow in full sun. They are vulnerable to overwatering, and they really don't like having wet feet for very long.

[grin_bear]

Aha! This is definitely the closest I've seen yet! Thank you. I don't think they are very common in the Northern Wisconsin (USA) area even in bouquets, as nobody I knew could identify them. And indeed they lasted for 2 months in the jar of water after the rest of the bouquet had died, even growing new buds and reflowering in a couple cases. I'll plant these as per the Geraldton Wax's preferences... probably in a container so it can be brought inside for frosts just in case.

Thanks again!!!

[freyaw]

No problem :D I love the flowers, they last so long as cut flowers I don't have to remember them, and they don't set off anyone's allergies that I know of. You can get cultivars in different colours - my local bus depot has a hedge in white, Dad has the more common pinkish variety, and they can range to a medium purple.

When it comes time to prune it, you can be pretty brutal and it shouldn't mind. Like roses, as long as there are some growing bits left, you can hack the rest off and it will resprout - Dad cut one of his back to about a quarter of the volume a couple of years back (it was obscuring the light to his office window - that particular plant is something like fifteen or twenty years old; I remember taking large bouquets from it to school for my teachers) and he'll need to prune it again soon. Prune to shape and clean up the plant rather than pruning at any particular season (although take it under advisement that I live in an area that pretty much doesn't get frosts and Geraldton Wax here will grow almost all year round).