Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Black Beauty Elderberry, 1 by greenjay

greenjay wrote:
Japanese Kerria is an EXCELLENT shrub, one of my favorites. It is a near-cousin of roses, and has tiny yellow blooms much like a rosa banksiae.

Here it starts blooming in late May, and continues to bloom sporadically until September. The habit is very similar to a LARGE forsythia -- I would not trim it except to remove crossing branches, just let it get the long arching branches with blooms on them. DGB has a beautiful specimen that I "visit" several times a year, in dappled shade.

Photo taken 9/30/2006, DBG: