Sambucus canadensis prophouse-on-the-horizon The plant thrives in full

The plant thrives in full sun and well-drained soil

plant American basswood as a large shade tree for a park

on female plants

Buxus bodinieri

Sambucus canadensis prophouse-on-the-horizon The plant thrives in full3 Gallon, pick up only. Some plants seem woven into the memory of the land, and Sambucus canadensis, the American elderberry, is one of them. Found along fence rows, creek banks, and the forgotten edges of old fields, this native shrub has long kept company with the settler's dooryard and the woodland wanderer's path alike, as useful as it is familiar. A generous grower, the elderberry rises in loose thickets of arching canes, crowned in early summer