Vaccinium darrowii 'John Blue' Vines and pair the striped giants

and pair the striped giants with simple green and blue-green companions that keep the peppermint flowers from having to compete

On a mature plant in October you will find all three colors at once on the same shrub

'Florida Sunshine' is the selection that made the species famous: a form whose foliage glows chartreuse-gold through spring and summer

is one of the odd and lovely surprises of the Florida scrub

or a large trellis to climb

Vaccinium darrowii 'John Blue' Vines and pair the striped giantsDarrow's blueberry is the silver leaved evergreen of the group, a low, fine textured native of the pine flatwoods and sandy scrub from southern Georgia through Florida to eastern Louisiana. The species honors George M. Darrow, the United States Department of Agriculture scientist whose breeding work built much of the modern blueberry, and the wild plant has passed its own heat tolerance into many of today's Southern highbush cultivars. 'John Blue' is