Cabernet Splash Blueberry Shrub

Compact, new plants are coming to market that offer homeowners color and a smaller size that fits modern lots. But how many gorgeous plants also give you and your family an abundance of superfruit? Now, you won’t need to choose between ornamental and fruiting plants. Cabernet Splash™ Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum ‘VacBri1’) is a four-season, ornamental edible plant. This spectacular variety is a sport of the popular ‘Toro’ Blueberry. You’ll enjoy a prolific crop of high quality fruit in early mid-season. In spring, amazing, dark-purple foliage adds drama to kick off the new season. As the season progresses, the leaves age to mottled, dark-green and finally finish with a fiery fall color display. This is an outstanding variety to add to your Edible Landscape. These are very attractive landscape shrubs with dark, leathery, purple foliage, showy spring flowers, beautiful berries and excellent red fall color. It works beautifully as a “Thriller” in containers, too. You’ll find many places to add this beautiful plant. Consider them for very thoughtful gifts to all the health-conscious people in your life! They are an upright bush with a relatively shallow, fibrous root system and woody canes. Fruit is borne on buds formed during the previous growing season in late summer. Highbush blueberry plants leaf, flower, and fruit in June. They are used as hedges, shrub borders, beautiful ornamentals or for wildlife