Vaccinium ashei ‘Alapaha’ Size:3 Gallon dense shade or specimen tree

dense shade or specimen tree for a pond edge

is the Chinese holly

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

overlapping fans of bright green blades

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

Vaccinium ashei ‘Alapaha’ Size:3 Gallon dense shade or specimen treeSold 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