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Sambuca Black Lace 1 Live Plant (Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla Black Lace) Elderberry *Shipping starts for this plant in March 2024
This highly cultivated form of the familiar Black Elder is primarily a foliage plant whose deeply cut, purple-black leaves present themselves in graceful, fern-like fans. Black Lace Elderberry
Creamy pink flowers in the spring followed by blackish red fall berries, which can be harvested for making elderberry wine and jam, or left on the plant to attract birds and other wildlife.
Plants are broadly arching and reach 6–8′ in height, perhaps 5′ wide, and make superb specimens for many situations.
Large pink flowers in June lead, in due course, to black berries (we've not eaten them, but the birds do). Because plants are hardy through all of Zone 5, and into 4, they provide a very welcome alternative to Japanese Maples where exquisite foliage is needed but harsh temperatures prevail.
For best shape and foliage, prune hard in early spring and provide even moisture.
Planting Tips:
Dig your hole slightly wider than the roots and 2 inches deeper than plant depth, keep the soil line 2 inches deeper than the line from the store or nursery.
add compost and work it into the planting hole.
spread the roots out inside the hole, backfill with dirt, tamp the dirt with your foot to help fill in any empty pockets of air.
water well.
add additional compost around the plant followed by a layer of mulch, wood chips or shredded leaves work well. Elderberries have very shallow roots and mulch helps retain moisture and keeps competing weeds at bay.