Vaccinium ashei ‘Alapaha’ Size:3 Gallon long-stamened flowers hold a lightly

long-stamened flowers hold a lightly waxy sheen from the glandular hairs that cover them

dense shade or specimen tree for a pond edge

this native shrub has long kept company with the settler's dooryard and the woodland wanderer's path alike

but also a reminder: even the loveliest stories can cast long shadows

within about fifty feet of the female winterberries meant to fruit

Vaccinium ashei ‘Alapaha’ Size:3 Gallon long-stamened flowers hold a lightlySold as a 3 gallon plant, pick up only. If one fruit tells the story of Southern summers, it is the blueberry, and the rabbiteye is the blueberry of the South: a big, heat loving native shrub grown from the Carolinas to the Gulf as Vaccinium ashei, now often listed as Vaccinium virgatum. 'Alapaha' was bred at the University of Georgia and named for the Alapaha River of the coastal plain, a cultivar that carries the region's heritage while ripening a