Vaccinium crassifolium 'Well's Delight' Fred Meyer Let the low limbs cascade

Let the low limbs cascade over a low wall

though the species traces to southern China

grow the plant in a large pot and move the container under cover for winter

and the Woodlanders method for carrying the crown through winter is worth following: after frost blackens the stems

Latin for shining

Vaccinium crassifolium 'Well's Delight' Fred Meyer Let the low limbs cascadeThe creeping blueberry is the ground hugging cousin of the fruiting kinds, a low, evergreen, native groundcover of the Carolina coastal plain that trades height for reach. 'Well's Delight' is a North Carolina State University selection from the southeastern corner of that state, named for the late Dr. B. W. Wells, the pioneering North Carolina ecologist, and set apart by small, shiny leaves even finer than the usual for the species. The botanical name