My high bushes bloom extremely early. Usually February. Some years they hit that magical week where it is 60* and pollinators are out. Some not. I grow mostly rabbit eye varieties and keep the 25 or so high bush plants as more of a novelty and treat when they do produce. Maybe I just have the wrong varieties. Glad your experience is different.Huh? There are southern highbush and rabbiteye varieties that grow and produce VERY well here. If they're not supposed to, the ones in my yard and up at my cabin in Banks didn't get the memo.