Carla, Park Seed has a blueberry bush just for pots. I do not remember if it is a rabbiteye or highbush, nor if it matters in central NC.
Anyone living near Raleigh that is interested in growing blueberries should plan to attend the Friends of the JC Raulston Aboretum next Thursday, Mar 16th at 7:30. Professor Dr. James Ballington of NC State's Dept. of Horticultural Science will speak on 'Blueberries for the Home Garden'. The cost is $5 for non-members.

Here is a link that might be useful: Park Seed Company - Greenwood, SC

i've heard good things about "sunshine blue" ... a pot-suitable dwarf.

You know how you buy small trees and bushes in the black plastic pots. You know how you purchase them thinking that you are going to actually plant them in the ground. You know how things come up and prevent you from doing this until years later when you notice that the bushes are still sitting there waiting on you to dig a hole....

I have regular blue berry bushes that went for years in their pots waiting on me and they all bloomed and set fruit without a problem - and some of them got quite large.

So if you find a cheap blueberry somewhere, I say buy it and plant it in your fancy pot and just keep it pruned back to whatever size you want. There is no need to by any sort of "special" blueberry - they will all survive containment. But (and there's always a 'but') you will get more berries from an in-ground plant than in the pot.

thanks for the perspective, TJ.

Thank you John and Ralphw

Carla