Companion planting is a popular gardening technique that involves growing specific plants near each other to benefit one or both plants. Blueberry companion plants can provide various advantages to ...

In the last few weeks of March I watched some very busy bees visiting flowers of the native highbush blueberry bush planted just outside my home office window. They also visited the hybrid rabbiteye ...

Next time you see a bee hovering around a fruit tree, you're probably witnessing pollination in action. Pollination is what enables a plant to produce seeds and fruit—and, as research has shown, ...

When most people think about blueberry bushes (Vaccinium spp.), the fruit tends to get all of the attention. Yet the true magic of this shrub arrives well before any berries, when its early spring ...

Most people know that bees of all kinds are extremely important pollinators. Honeybees and bumblebees, in particular, are the ones most people think about first when it comes to pollinating a garden.

DENVER — Honeybees may be the world’s most famous pollinator, but a new study shows that blueberry blooms reduce the insects to improvisational klutzes. Not useless ones though. Pollination ...

The LSU AgCenter will soon trumpet the newest additions to the Louisiana Super Plant list, and professor Allen Owings of the Hammond Research Station says they should be available in nurseries in the ...

Next time you see a bee hovering around a fruit tree, you're probably witnessing pollination in action. Pollination is what enables a plant to produce seeds and fruit - and, as research has shown, ...