Vaccinium darrowii 'Rosa's Blush' Edible and the whole spike carries

and the whole spike carries a sweet perfume that drifts on warm evening air

Thriving in saline and brackish soils that would kill ordinary plants

especially under the high canopy of pines or oaks

The rarity of the Georgia plume is written into the plant's very biology

These are the grandchildren of a legend

Vaccinium darrowii 'Rosa's Blush' Edible and the whole spike carriesDarrow's blueberry is the fine leaved evergreen of the Southern blueberries, a low, glaucous native of the sandy pinelands from Georgia to Florida, named for George M. Darrow, the United States Department of Agriculture scientist whose work built much of the modern blueberry. Most plants carry the usual blue green foliage, but 'Rosa's Blush' was chosen for something showier: new growth flushed with generous pink tints that light up the shrub, a