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Mar 20, 2014 8:22 PM CST
Name: Elaine
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Those elderberries with the dark leaves are widely available, greene. Look online for Sambucus 'Black Beauty' or better still 'Black Lace' that has leaves very much like a Japanese maple.

My daughter had several of them in her garden in Salt Lake, and they also start easily from cuttings. We had no idea the berries were edible, and the birds didn't go after them either, surprisingly.

Curiously, her big shrubs of 'Black Beauty' bloomed and fruited very well in partial shade on the north side of their house. Didn't need to be cross-pollinated either.
Elaine

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