Blueberry & Raspberry Varieties
Our blueberry plants are Northwest friendly varieties, between 2-3 years old (one gallon size) so it won't take long before you are able to enjoy fresh berries from your garden. We have put together some information to help you decide which plant is best for your growing conditions.
Blueberry Bush Prices & Varieties:
One Gallon (2-3 years old) $12.99 each or 3 for $29.99
Bluecrop - One Gallon Pot
Fruits ripen in mid-July and the harvest can go on for several weeks. Bluecrop is a good berry for freezing, baking and fresh eating. Vigorous upright growth of 4-6 feet; keep pruned. The bushes become a blaze of crimson in the fall season, so they are ideal arranged as a hedge. Acidic soil preferred
Sun: Full sun
Season: Mid July
Height: 5-6 feet
Spread: 4-6 feet
Flavor: Sweet
Fruit Size: Large
Bluegold - One Gallon Pot
Blue Gold blueberry produces fruit mid-season. It has bell shaped white flowers in the spring then shows light blue fruit which ripen early July. Red and purple foliage in the fall, sweet berries.
Sun: Full sun to partial shade
Season: Mid-season
Height: 5-8 feet
Spread: 5-8 feet
Flavor: Sweet
Fruit Size: Medium-Large
Bonus - One Gallon Pot
The Bonus variety of blueberry is very hardy and a voracious producer of fruit. Bonus produces one of the largest fruits (approximate size of a quarter). Fruit is firm with a good flavor.
Sun: Full Sun
Season: Mid-Late Season
Height: 5-6 feet
Spread: 4-6 feet
Flavor: Tasty
Fruit Size: Very Large
Burgundy - One Gallon Pot
The Burgundy variety of blueberry is a mid-season berry with a wild flavor. It is a low growing bush, which produces small, light colored fruit. Produces gorgeous burgundy new growth.
Sun: Full Sun
Season: Mid Season
Height: 1 foot
Spread: 1 foot
Flavor: Wild
Fruit Size: Small
Duke - One Gallon Pot
The Duke blueberry is a very popular variety - it has a sweet flavor, produces a large fruit as well as produces a large quantity of berries over the season. Produces white and pink flowers in spring, yellow and orange foliage in the fall. Duke is an self pollinating blueberry, to produce more fruit you can cross pollinate.
Sun: Full sun
Season: Early (June)
Height: 4-6 feet
Spread: 6-8 feet
Flavor: Sweet and Tangy
Fruit Size: Large
Elliott - One Gallon Pot
The Elliott blueberry produces a large, firm fruit (about ½” in size). Bloom color is beautiful white with pink in spring, with burgundy stems in the off season. Needs loamy, well drained soil. This is a self-pollinator
Sun: Full sun
Season: Late Season
Height: 4-6 feet
Spread: 4-6 feet
Flavor: Sweet
Fruit Size: Large
Patriot - One Gallon Pot
The Patriot blueberry is a great landscape shrub, with berries that are great for fresh eating, canning and freezing. It is hardy in colder temperatures and wet soil. Great fall color!
Sun: Full Sun
Season: Early season
Height: 3-4 feet
Spread: 3-5 feet
Flavor: Slightly sweet
Fruit Size: Large
Reka (Northern High Bush) - One Gallon Pot
The Reka blueberry is great for canning and freezing. This variety is a quick grower and high producer of fruit in early season. Berries are medium to large in size. Reka prefers well-drained, acidic soil that is consistently moist. Gorgeous burgundy foliage in autumn.
Sun: Full Sun
Season: Early season
Height: 4-6 feet
Spread: 6 feet
Flavor: Exceptional
Fruit Size: Medium – Large
Sweetheart - One Gallon Pot
The Sweetheart Blueberry is an early season blueberry that will produce a second harvest late in the season. Beautiful plant with uniquely shaped white blossoms and also a self-pollinating plant.
Sun: Full sun to partial shade
Season: Late spring, early summer (possible to get a second crop mid-August)
Height: 5-6 feet
Spread: 4-5 feet
Flavor: Sweet
Fruit SIze: Medium- Large
Top Hat - One Gallon Pot
The Top Hat blueberry is a compact grower and produces a full size firm fruit. Fruit is sweet, but has a wild tart hint to it. Bell shaped light pink blooms - great plant for containers. Foliage turns a blaze of orange in fall.
Sun: Full sun to partial shade
Season: Summer
Height: 2 feet
Spread: 2 feet
Flavor: Sweet & tart
Fruit SIze: Medium
Raspberry Plant Prices and Varieties:
Encore
Encore is vigorous, sturdy, upright, nearly spineless and has excellent winter hardiness. Berries are large with very cohesive drupelets and good raspberry flavor.
Lewis
Lewis is a low-chill primocane fruiting red raspberry with consistently large, glossy, firm fruit. Berries are known for their exceptional eating quality, with a perfect sweetness and low acidity. ... Produces fruit very early in the season. Berries don't hide among its foliage, making them easy to pick.
Nova
Nova Raspberry is an extremely hardy, mid-season, summer red raspberry. The berries are very firm with a fine flavor. Fruits are bright red and attractive for fresh markets or U-Pick farms. The plants have high vigor and will produce a small crop in the late summer or early fall. Hardiness Zones 4-7.
Joe's Gardens
3110 Taylor Avenue
Bellingham, WA 98225
360-671-7639
Monday-Saturday 9am-5:30pm, Sunday 9am-4pm
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