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Elderberry
Elderberry
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Intensely flavored fruit with a rich aroma. Bountiful harvest ripens in August. Tall shrub grows to 12-14 ft. Plant two for proper pollination and top yields. Zones 3-9. Potted plants.
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York Elderberry
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Product Details
Zones: 4 - 8 (-20° 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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 -  Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Still going strong
Reviewed By: Lee in Iowa (Des Moines, Iowa)
I bought HF's elderberries in 1998 and they're still going strong. Some die back in our changeable and harsh winters, but others pop up beside them. I admit, I use them to distract the birds from my other August garden goodies, so I've never tasted the heavy yield I'm seeing. But I tucked these into an always-soggy low spot in my garden and they're a reliable producer even a decade later.


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