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Sambucus Elderberry Easy Fruit Kit

Sambucus Elderberry Easy Fruit Kit

Variety: Female Samdal, Male Samly
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    Zone

    3 - 7

  • Icon of a horizontal ruler in a grey circle

    Mature Height

    240 in

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    Mature Width

    240 in

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    Light

    Full Sun, Part Shade
  • Icon of a water drop in a grey circle

    Water

    Moist, well-drained
  • Icon of a seedling in dirt in a grey circle

    Soil

    Clay, Normal, loamy, Sandy
  • Description / Sambucus Elderberry Easy Fruit Kit

    The Sambucus Elderberry Easy Fruit Kit contains both Samdal and Samly varieties. Newer elderberry varieties from Denmark, these Elderberry shrubs are attractive, fast-growing, summer-flowering and are perfectly at home in an ornamental or edible landscape. The shrubs grow to a mature size of 10 to 20 feet tall with a similar width, its long shoots growing from the soil. The shoots are covered in large, pinnately compound, serrated, dark green leaves, and when pollinated, bear fruit the second season. In early summer, large, lacy clusters of tiny creamy white flowers bloom, followed by beautiful bunches of drooping blue-black berries in late summer. Foliage is malodorous when crushed, but the flowers smell sweet and musky. The blooms attract butterflies, and the berries bring in songbirds if left unharvested.

    The berries and leaves of the Elderberry bush have both medicinal and culinary uses. Elderberries are very high in anthocyanin, a color pigment and powerful antioxidant, and they are a good source of vitamin A, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium. They are used in the kitchen to make jams, jellies, pies, syrups, and wine, and the flowers can be cooked and used in teas, cordials, and ointments.

    Sambucus nigra varieties, commonly called elderberry, both Sambucus Samdal and Sambucus Samly are multi-stemmed deciduous shrubs that grow vigorously and spread through root suckering and self-seeding, but the bush is easily managed by pruning out unwanted suckers. Second year shoots should be removed after bearing berries. They will be replaced by the current year's growth.

    These large elderberry shrubs can be used as background plants in a garden bed, but they make wonderful understory woodlanders, where they can naturalize. They are a great option for a butterfly garden or a rain garden.

    Samdal and Samly are cell grown plants, which provide them with a strong root system. The shrubs are easy to grow, low maintenance, and cold hardy to Zone 3. They grow best in full to part sun in soil that is fertile, moist, and freely draining, with a slightly acidic pH of 6.0 to 6.5. Fertilize them in early spring.

    Samdal is the more productive variety, but both Sambucus Samdal and Samyl varieties are required for cross pollination, and 1 Samyl shrub will pollinate up to 5 Samdal shrubs. Plants arrive dormant.

  • Product Details

    SKU: 44266
    Genus: Sambucus
    Species: nigra
    Variety: Female Samdal, Male Samly
    Item Form: Bareroot
    Bloom Color: Cream, White
    Foliage Color: Medium Green
    Habit: Upright
    Light Requirements: Full SunPart Shade
    Moisture Requirements:
    • Moist, well-drained
    Bloom Start: Early Summer
    Bloom End: Late Summer
    Uses:
    • Beds
    • Border
    • Cuisine
    • Hedge
    • Fall Color
    Special Features:
    • Berries
    • Bird Lovers
    • Butterfly Lovers
    • Edible
    • Flower
    • Fragrance
    Hardiness Zones: 3 - 7
    State Shipping Restrictions: GU, HI, OR, PR, VI

    *Does Not Qualify for Additional Discounts