Sambucus nigra 'Black Lace'

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tobee43 groveland, FL(Zone 9b) Jun 20, 2006

i too, saw this plant in a magazine, but it was this years early spring copy of horticulture mag. it listed some nurseries that were supposed to have carried them this season. i called them all but none had it. i left my name and number and finally a few weeks ago one of the nurseries called me and i went down and picked them up. this was a really high end nursery so they cost me a dear 35 bucks each...however...they were 3 very full gallon pots.

my understanding is they grow much faster that most japanese maples...(i really don't know about that, now with all the new cultivars out). also someone mentioned above in the thread that they are slow growers.... but i loved the color for contrast in my perennial gardens...since i have so much yellow out there.

so far they are doing well...i don't see any blooms as yet but they seem as though they have taken well. i can't wait to see what happens with them!

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jdcoffman Lees Summit, MO(Zone 5b) Jun 22, 2006

If anyone is still looking for it this year it's a Proven Winner Color Choice, so go to the provenwinners.com site and look for a certified garden center near you. It is still a limited availability plant but several of the larger nurseries near me are carrying it. If anyone's interested I could get one and mail it to you.

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alyrics Beachwood, OH Jun 23, 2006

Welp I bought some elderberry jam from an Amish woman and that stuff is so seedy you can hear it crunch. Ix-Nay on at-Thay again. I threw away $4 on a small S. Black Beauty up at Bluestone - which didn't make it thru last winter. I have a larger specimen of either the native shrub or the Sutherlands Gold that is sitting at the edge of the woods under a pretty dense canopy of oak and maple. It seems to have been planted rather than spontaneously combusted - but in any case it does die back severely every year and flowers on the lower branches only. Very annoying. As soon as the berries develop they are snagged by some woodland critter and I'm left with a very unassuming bush that never gets more than 5 ft high. If the lower trunk wasn't so big I'd move it to more sun and put in a big Clethra. I think mine is a cultivar since the elderberries on the side of the road seem quite happy up here.

In other odd news, my son wouldn't let me toss an old arborvitae that was removed when we had to waterproof the side of the house. So I told him he could have it to plant deep in the woods. I never thought that darn thing would even live, much less - send out new growth in the heretofore dead dead dead backside of the shrub. Yup Equilibrium - plants will surprise you sometimes.

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