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    A Gardener’s Miscellany

    May 25, 2021 4 minutes

    Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke

    This week it’s:

    Blueberries and cranberries

    All the juicy details about this fruity twosome

    BLUEBERRIES and their close relations, the cranberries, are native to North America. The blueberries that we buy from supermarkets are , and are known as ‘highbush blueberries.’ This is because, in nature and in commerce, the fruits come from tall (high) bushes, growing up to 13ft (4m)! Commercial growers prefer these tall ones for reasons of yield but, for home gardens, much smaller varieties have been bred. Amateur gardeners can have lots of success with blueberries, but the same can’t really be said of the cranberry (); this is a completely different prospect, and below I explain how

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