Black Elderberry | Sambucus 'Black Lace'
A liquorice, powder-pink combo!
Grown by Danielle
South Downs National Park
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The highlights
- Wonderfully bushy shrub
- Medium shrub - grows up to 3m
- Superb lacy, liquorice leaves and pink blooms
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
Description
- With its filigree-like, near-black purple foliage, pastel pink, citrus-scented flowers and genuinely scrummy berries, this elderberry cultivar is a real bobby dazzler!
- Fully hardy, easy to grow and a great foil for plants with green foliage, ‘Black Lace’ deserves a place in any garden as far as we’re concerned.
- Growing to three metres or so in height, this bushy shrub can also be pruned much smaller, making it perfect for both screening and using as a standalone feature plant.
- If you can get to the plant’s berries before the birds do, then you can use them to produce a batch of delicious, homemade elderberry wine.
- A deserving recipient of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, ‘Black Lace’ is known to perform well in British gardens.
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Good pest and disease resistance
Can be affected by aphids. Pick these off by hand and spray the area with soapy water. In rare cases, can suffer from Verticillium Wilt. This causes yellowing and shrivelling of the lower leaves, and some or all of the plant suddenly wilts, especially in hot weather, and brown or black streaks in the tissue under the bark. Where the disease is confirmed, take care not to spread potentially infected soil around, remove the infected plant with as much root system as possible and destroy. Consider grassing over the area for at least fifteen years, or plant a resistant replacement.
Full sun to partial shade
Grow in full sun (at least 6 hours daily) for the best colour.
Any moist, well-drained soil
Sambucus does well in any moist, well-drained soil. If your soil is particularly clay-heavy and/or often becomes waterlogged then you can improve the drainage by adding in plenty of organic matter such as garden compost as well as some perlite or gravel.
Prune lightly
Pruning Group 1 - Will tolerate hard pruning to restrict the size; can be maintained as a small shrub if desired. Remove diseased, damaged, congested or crossing shoots. Shoots that are growing in unwanted directions can also be pruned out.
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South Downs National Park
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Straight from the capable hands of our shrub specialist Danielle to your garden, you can be sure that each bush, hedge and plant is grown to last. Nurtured in the fields of the South Downs and professionally pruned for the best shape, these hardy feature plants will be adding structure, colour and variety to your garden for many years to come.
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