I purchased two blueberry varieties via mail order about ten years ago and planted them on the street-side of the orchard garden.  One of them remains there, while the other one possibly has faded away.  This original plants blooms and gets a few berries each year, but it is not ideally situated—it is crowded out by raspberries and other plants.  I added another type of blueberry, the low-growing type that came as twigs with a few roots from an eBay seller.  These I tucked under the columnar apple trees in that garden, not expecting to see them again.  Surprisingly, they came up the following spring and every spring since, though they do not bloom as of yet. 

About four years ago, I added another blueberry from a mail-order source.  It was a sad-looking stick and it has taken until now to really put on some growth.  It bloomed the last two years, but I haven’t seen any berries.

Because my blueberries haven’t produced many berries, their garden value has come more in the form of autumn color. Blueberries are lovely landscape shrubs regardless of their berries.

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My future plans for these plants are to feed them berry food and tend to them a little better to maybe get some real productivity out of them and maybe a blueberry pie one year.