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Elderberry
Popular for Deep Purple Homemade Wine!
 ( 19 customer reviews)
Intensely flavored fruit with a rich aroma. Bountiful
harvest ripens in August. Extremely hardy, tall shrub
grows 12-14 ft. No spraying required—both varieties
are practically pest-free. Plant two varieties for improved pollination, extended harvest period and top yields.
York—Quickest to bear, often in its second year. Ripens
late August. Nova—Great for pies, jelly and wine.
Ripens two weeks before York. Potted. Zones 3-9. This item ships at the proper planting time for your region in both spring and fall.
If the current shipping season is closed, your order will ship at the proper time in the next season.
Product Details
Zones: 3 - 9 (-30° F.)
Height: 12-14'
Spacing: 6-8'
Sun/Shade: full sun/part shade
Pollinator: self fertile
Blooms: early summer
Fruit: Juicy, sweet, purplish black berries
| Comments: Excellent berry size, largest of all. Lovely fall foliage. Bright white flowers in the spring. Highest of all in Vitamin C. Excellent pollinator for other elderberries. Can bear as early as the second year. Last to ripen. The elderberry has been used for myriad medicinal purposes for millennia. The berries and flowers are used in home-made wines. Dried elderberries and their blossoms are used in tea, which reputedly helps to reduce fever and improve digestion. The fruit is high in vitamin C. The flower-tops possess a mild floral flavor and are often used in pancakes, or dipped in batter & fried. The Joy of Cooking recommends combining the fruit with rhubarb in cooking (it also recommends cooking the flowers with gooseberries). The American goldfinch, brown thrasher, gray catbird, northern mockingbird, and yellow warbler nest in elderberries (Ortho: 32-33). The berries are eaten by the pileated woodpecker, mockingbird, gray catbird, brown thrasher, American robin, bluebird, thrush, cedar waxwing, northern and orchard orioles, tanager, black-headed and evening grosbeaks. Butterflies visit elderberry flowers for the nectar.
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Customer Reviews Overall Rating: Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers Sort Reviews: Newest | Oldest | Highest Rating | Lowest Rating  - Monday, April 23, 2012 So far - not bad Reviewed By: Phil (Elyria, OH) Ordered 2 York and 2 Nova in early fall of 2011. They shipped very late - were on back order. I planted in November when they arrived. Lucky that fall and winter were mild and ground was not frozen. All four are growing but I am skeptical that I will see more than a foot of growth this year. $25 a plant seems a little pricey for something so small but if my results end up like most of the reviews here I will be pleased. Definitely pleased that all 4 plants are growing.  - Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Healthy and doing well Reviewed By: Robin (Yakima, WA) Follow-up to a previous review-They were planted last Sept. The elderberries are doing well this Spring. They are leafing out and doing great. We are vastly pleased with them.  - Wednesday, March 28, 2012 What? Really? Reviewed By: Tracy (Firestone, CO) Super unhappy. I ordered 3 Elderberry bushes and they came in 2 inch pots. I could fit all 3 bushes in the palm of my hand. These are not priced right. Read More Reviews
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Elderberry
Popular for Deep Purple Homemade Wine!
(19
customer reviews)
Intensely flavored fruit with a rich aroma. Bountiful
harvest ripens in August. Extremely hardy, tall shrub
grows 12-14 ft. No spraying required—both varieties
are practically pest-free. Plant two varieties for improved pollination, extended harvest period and top yields.
York—Quickest to bear, often in its second year. Ripens
late August. Nova—Great for pies, jelly and wine.
Ripens two weeks before York. Potted. Zones 3-9.
This item ships at the proper planting time for your region in both spring and fall.
If the current shipping season is closed, your order will ship at the proper time in the next season.
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Product Details
Zones: 3 - 9 (-30° F.)
Height: 12-14'
Spacing: 6-8'
Sun/Shade: full sun/part shade
Pollinator: self fertile
Blooms: early summer
Fruit: Juicy, sweet, purplish black berries
| Comments: Excellent berry size, largest of all. Lovely fall foliage. Bright white flowers in the spring. Highest of all in Vitamin C. Excellent pollinator for other elderberries. Can bear as early as the second year. Last to ripen. The elderberry has been used for myriad medicinal purposes for millennia. The berries and flowers are used in home-made wines. Dried elderberries and their blossoms are used in tea, which reputedly helps to reduce fever and improve digestion. The fruit is high in vitamin C. The flower-tops possess a mild floral flavor and are often used in pancakes, or dipped in batter & fried. The Joy of Cooking recommends combining the fruit with rhubarb in cooking (it also recommends cooking the flowers with gooseberries). The American goldfinch, brown thrasher, gray catbird, northern mockingbird, and yellow warbler nest in elderberries (Ortho: 32-33). The berries are eaten by the pileated woodpecker, mockingbird, gray catbird, brown thrasher, American robin, bluebird, thrush, cedar waxwing, northern and orchard orioles, tanager, black-headed and evening grosbeaks. Butterflies visit elderberry flowers for the nectar.
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Elderberry Ships In The Spring
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Customer Reviews
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Lowest Rating - Monday, April 23, 2012
So far - not bad
Reviewed By:
Phil (Elyria, OH)
Ordered 2 York and 2 Nova in early fall of 2011. They shipped very late - were on back order. I planted in November when they arrived. Lucky that fall and winter were mild and ground was not frozen. All four are growing but I am skeptical that I will see more than a foot of growth this year. $25 a plant seems a little pricey for something so small but if my results end up like most of the reviews here I will be pleased. Definitely pleased that all 4 plants are growing.
- Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Healthy and doing well
Reviewed By:
Robin (Yakima, WA)
Follow-up to a previous review-They were planted last Sept. The elderberries are doing well this Spring. They are leafing out and doing great. We are vastly pleased with them.
- Wednesday, March 28, 2012
What? Really?
Reviewed By:
Tracy (Firestone, CO)
Super unhappy. I ordered 3 Elderberry bushes and they came in 2 inch pots. I could fit all 3 bushes in the palm of my hand. These are not priced right.
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