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Native edibles such as highbush blueberry, blackberries, pawpaw trees, and American persimmon trees make great additions to the landscape.

One year, we threw a net over a big highbush blueberry plant, and a bird got caught inside, with nothing to eat but blueberries.

In the 1850s, Thoreau charted when Walden Pond’s highbush blueberry first flowered.

Hybridizers in southern agricultural schools, particularly the University of Georgia and the University of Florida, have been able to cross the highbush blueberry with rabbiteye and other species to create a type known as southern highbush.

The traditional highbush blueberry, the sort you might find in the blueberry fields of New Jersey or Michigan, doesn’t fly in states like Florida because it needs long, cold winters to set fruiting buds.