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| Blueberry in four seasons |
Our daughter-in-law lives in
Southern California, and today bought strawberry plants for the garden. We have snow on ground here in Northern Colorado, but that doesn't have to keep me from thinking about gardening in our new yard. Fortunately, all of the base plantings were already established when we moved into our Fort Collins home in August - this will be the first time we haven't had to make major landscape efforts after getting established. With the lasted issue of
Sunset Magazine in hand and the article about
planting berries in a small space with an accompanying
video that also described suitable varieties (maybe plant now in California, but definitely not in Colorado), I was drawn to the portion of the story about
blueberries. With the vision of spring in mind, along with a Colorado Extension
blog about ways to successfully grow blueberries on the Front Range, I am ready to be a pioneer gardener - a descendant of eastern U.S. migrants to these
contested plains - a merging of the ancient, old, new, and future. I think the future looks like
Vaccinium corymbosum var.
Bountiful Blue.
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The blueberry picture is by Betsy Rogers-Knox, a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists. This image can be accessed by clicking at the Website
here. For more information about Rogers-Knox, click
here.
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