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Blueberry 'Bless Your Heart'

3-Gallon

Height: 4-5 feet tall.
Spread: 3-4 feet.
Sunlight: Full sun to partial shade.
Hardiness Zone: 7a.
Other Names: Vaccinium corymbosum 'Bless Your Heart'

Description:
A vigorous and heat-tolerant southern highbush blueberry variety, 'Bless Your Heart' is prized for its high yields, large berries, and beautiful year-round foliage. This compact shrub produces sweet, firm blueberries in mid-season, making it an excellent choice for edible landscaping, container gardening, and home orchards.

Edible Qualities:
Blueberry 'Bless Your Heart' produces large, juicy berries with a well-balanced sweet flavor. The fruit ripens in mid to late summer and is perfect for fresh eating, baking, and preserving.

The fruit is most often used in the following ways:
- Fresh Eating
- Baking
- Smoothies
- Preserves
- Freezing

Features & Attributes:
Blueberry 'Bless Your Heart' features lush, deep green foliage in spring and summer, turning vibrant shades of red and burgundy in the fall. In early spring, it produces clusters of delicate white, bell-shaped flowers that attract pollinators. Its high productivity and ornamental appeal make it a standout addition to gardens and landscapes.

This is a semi-evergreen shrub with an upright, bushy growth habit. It is self-pollinating but benefits from being planted near another blueberry variety for increased yields.

Aside from its primary use as an edible, Blueberry 'Bless Your Heart' is suitable for the following landscape applications:
- Edible Hedges
- Container Growing
- Home Gardens
- Ornamental Landscaping

Planting & Growing:
Blueberry 'Bless Your Heart' will grow to be about 4-5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 3-4 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1-2 feet from the ground. It grows at a moderate rate and, under ideal conditions, can be expected to live for 30 years or more.

This shrub thrives in full sun to partial shade and well-drained, acidic soil. It requires consistent moisture, particularly during fruit development, and benefits from an annual layer of mulch to retain soil moisture and regulate temperature. Light pruning after fruiting helps maintain its shape and productivity.

Additional Characteristics:
- Mid to Late Season Ripening
- Self-Pollinating (Improved Yields with Cross-Pollination)
- Heat and Drought Tolerant
- High-Yielding
- Excellent Fall Foliage Color