Hot New Home Garden Blueberry Trends: Double-Canopy Crops of Perpetua™

Summary: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania's Garden Media Group Inc. identifies double-canopy crops of Perpetua™ as hot new home garden blueberry trends in 2016.

The double-canopy Perpetua™ blueberry shrub (Vaccinium corymbosum × angustifolium ‘Perpetua’) is introduced as the seventh variety in Fall Creek’s BrazelBerries™ Collection: American Nurseryman @AmNurseryman, via Twitter Dec. 15, 2015

Hot new home garden blueberry trends are identified by Garden Media Group Inc. of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, for Perpetua™ blueberries released by Fall Creek Farm & Nursery of Lowell, Oregon, in 2016.

Perpetua™ becomes the seventh variety in Fall Creek’s BrazelBerries™ Collection: blackberry Baby Cakes™; Blueberry Glaze™, Jelly Bean™, Peach Sorbet™ and Pink Icing™ blueberries; and Raspberry Shortcake™.

The trend-spotting Garden Media Group considers home-growing edibles, functionals and ornamentals a component of “wellitality” (wellness hospitality), one of seven hot gardening technology trends for 2016. They determine as components of trending wellitality that “People want to grow their own food that not only tastes good, but also packs a nutritional punch.”

Perpetua™ emerges as a big seller for 2016, and beyond, because of easy cultivation and free radical-controlling antioxidants.

Hot new home garden blueberry trends focus on blueberries’ healthy antioxidants and nutritious proteins and on vitamins A and C for backyard wildlife, domesticated animals and people.

Perpetua™ bushes generate seasonal fragrance and year-round color and structure as 4- to 5-foot (1.22- to 1.52-meter) bushes cultivated in garden rows or throughout the yard. They have blue-black berries that individually contain 50 to 75 seeds, pink bell-shaped flowers, dark green leaves that redden in autumn and red and yellow-tinted canes. They include in their intakes of moisturized nutrients nitrogen released from tightly bound proteins in humus through protein-cleaving protease exuded by fungi in the Ascomycetes class.

Ascomycetes fungi join into colonies in soils and on roots to swap solubilized nitrogen for sugars exuded by blueberry roots.

Perpetua™, a double-canopy bush, keeps hot new home garden blueberry trends at high production levels with the first crop in mid-summer and the second in autumn.

Plant information sheets by Fall Creek Farm & Nursery list Perpetua™ as “best suited” for United States Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through 8. The range means that Perpetua™ is cold-tolerant to between 10 and minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 12.2 and minus 34.4 degrees Celsius) northward through east and west coastal Canada. Perpetua™ needs one bush to fruit since all five blueberries in the BrazelBerries™ Collection are self-pollinating even though additional bushes may increase berry production and size.

Fall Creek Farm & Nursery info-sheets observe that “The BrazelBerries® Collection of berry shrubs is bred specifically for home gardens.”

Hot new home garden blueberry trends prompt Perpetua™ to be as tolerant of container and ground locations as the other blueberry varieties in the BrazelBerries™ Collection. Blueberry Glaze™ qualifies as a boxwood-like, mounding, 2- to 3-foot (0.61- to 0.92-meter) bush with 600 chill hours, wild-tasting berries and zones 5 to 8 hardiness. Jelly Bean™, 1- to 2-foot (0.31-to 0.92-meter), spherical mini-hedge, requires coldness no more extreme than zones 4 to 8 and, like Perpetua™, 1,000 chill hours. Peach Sorbet and Pink Icing serve to complement one another’s 500 chill hours, 3- to 4-foot (0.91- to 1.22-meter) habit and zones 5 to 10 hardiness.

Hot new home garden blueberry trends take gardeners into “independent garden centers throughout the US and Canada” and back again.

Peach Sorbet™ blueberries display the seasonal fragrance and year-round color and structure that characterize Perpetua™ blueberry shrubs: Bushel and Berry™ @BushelandBerry, via Twitter June 3, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

"The double-canopy Perpetua™ blueberry shrub (Vaccinium corymbosum × angustifolium ‘Perpetua’) is introduced as the seventh variety in Fall Creek’s BrazelBerries™ Collection: American Nurseryman @AmNurseryman, via Twitter Dec. 15, 2015, @ https://twitter.com/AmNurseryman/status/676870873702227969

Peach Sorbet™ blueberries display the seasonal fragrance and year-round color and structure that characterize Perpetua™ blueberry shrubs: Bushel and Berry™‏ @BushelandBerry, via Twitter June 3, 2013, @ https://twitter.com/BushelandBerry/status/341729241056018432

For further information:

American Nurseryman‏ @AmNurseryman. 15 December 2015. "Have you seen the new @BrazelBerries 2016 plant?" Twitter. Dec. 15, 2015.
Available @ https://twitter.com/AmNurseryman/status/676870873702227969

“Baby Cakes ™ ‘APF-236T.’” Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc. > The BrazelBerries® Varieties.
Available @ http://www.brazelberries.com/varieties/baby-cakes

“Blueberry Glaze ™ ‘ZF08-095.’” Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc. > The BrazelBerries® Varieties.
Available @ http://www.brazelberries.com/varieties/blueberry-glaze

“BrazelBerries™.” Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc.
Available @ http://fallcreeknursery.com/gardeners/brazelberries

Bushel and Berry™‏ @BushelandBerry. 3 June 2013. "Check out the breathtaking photo of Peach Sorbet in the winter! You won't believe it! #gardenchat." Twitter.
Available @ https://twitter.com/BushelandBerry/status/341729241056018432

Bushel and Berry™‏ @BushelandBerry. 12 February 2016. "Food Friday: A Blueberry Raw Cheesecake For A Special Valentine." Twitter.
Available @ https://twitter.com/BushelandBerry/status/698223548435996674

“Fall Creek® Farm & Nursery Introduces New BrazelBerries® Perpetua™ Blueberry for 2016.” Garden Media Group > Clients > Client News.
Available @ http://www.gardenmediagroup.com/clients/client-news/494-fall-creek-farm-nursery-introduces-new-brazelberries-perpetua-blueberry-for-2016

“Jelly Bean ™ ‘ZF06-179.’” Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc. > The BrazelBerries® Varieties.
Available @ http://www.brazelberries.com/varieties/jelly-bean

“Peach Sorbet™ ‘ZF06-043’.” Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc. > The BrazelBerries® Varieties.
Available @ http://www.brazelberries.com/varieties/peach-sorbet

“Perpetua® ‘ORUS-61-1.’” Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc. > The BrazelBerries® Varieties.
Available @ http://www.brazelberries.com/varieties/perpetua

“Pink Icing™ ‘ZF06-079.’” Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc. > The BrazelBerries® Varieties.
Available @ http://www.brazelberries.com/varieties/pink-icing

“Raspberry Shortcake™ ‘NR7.’” Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc. > The BrazelBerries Varieties.
Available @ http://www.brazelberries.com/varieties/raspberry-shortcake