Sambucus Lemony Lace® (Elderberry)//OUTSTANDING⚡ NATIVE hybrid with bright showy foliage!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- David moves outside at Overdevest Nurseries with a wagon full of plants. In this video, he delights in highlighting a SUPERB❤️💛 selection in our Proven Winners® line up that has FANTASTIC, lush, golden ferny foliage that lasts all season long and puts on a TREMENDOUS display in sun, partial shade or dappled shady places.
Developed from our NATIVE Red Elderberry it is HARDY and EASY to GROW, adapts to a variety of soil types and is a MUST HAVE for mixed beds and borders, foundation plantings, Informal hedges and screens and woodland gardens. Its luxuriant foliage and flowing, elegant habit is especially valuable for softening the hard surfaces of paved and courtyard areas. It can grow to about 6' tall or so, but can easily be pruned or annually coppiced to maintain a shorter appearance and an even lusher effect.
FEATURES:
☀️ Sunny bright yellow foliage lights up your landscape
👌 Colorful foliage from spring to fall
✔️ Showy white flowers in spring
👍 Long lived, easy to grow & easy to look after (low maintenance)
🦌 Very deer resistant
✔️ Boldly impressive as an accent
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Sambucus racemosa Lemony Lace® ('SMNRSRD4)
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I planted mine first in full sun (US Zone 7). It couldn't tolerate it and began to wither away. I had to re-located it to a mostly shade space to get it to thrive.
Well done! I've seen some really specimens in shadier spots..., slightly more open, lacy and elegant, with subtle softer shades of lemony-lime green. I am sure your plant will be a delight and a joy to behold!
In sunnier sites, the color will be brighter, stronger yellow shades, and it is important that there's plenty of consistent moisture at its roots too. It needs the moisture, so congratulations in making your decision to relocate it.
I'm 8b, pretty much same story.
I had it in part sun, 11-3. It was too much. Moved it to morning sun. 11 on in the shade.
Its thriving and has a beautiful, vibrant color.
Great information, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I am in zone 5 and this still burns out in the summer. Have to start over every year. Right now it's just under 3ft mid july and slowly still growing. If and when it burns out again I'll add more compost this fall. Also I am infested with Asian jumping worms which I'm sure does not help at all
Top dressing with a rich, moisture retentive compost and refreshing the mulch will help to retain more moisture at it roots during the hotter periods of summer and deep watering during dry periods will help too. Elderberries love to grow in moist (not soaking wet), conditions so another alternative would be to move it to a new damper spot (if one exists in you garden) and you might consider a shadier spot too. The color will change to a lime green but at least you will have a taller, more elegant plant with nice lacy foliage. Obviously, that would also give you the opportunity to prepare a new planting spot with an extra generous sized hole, lots of organic matter etc. that will help it cope better with the rigors of summer.
Does it require a second lemony lace elderberry as a pollinator to produce flowers? Or maybe even a different variety of elderberry to act as a pollinator? I heard that the lemony lace elderberry does not act as a pollinator itself for other elderberries like black lace. Do you know anything about that? Could it be that the reason you haven't seen berries on your lemony lace is that you don't have other elderberries in the area to act as pollinators? Or do you think the lemony lace just doesn't ever produce berries whether there's a pollinator around or not? Thank you.
Thanks for your interesting question, I can see your reasoning.... The answer is that it does NOT need another pollinator, but if there were other elderberries around, obviously the chances of having more pollinating insects visit the flowers and ultimately bearing more fruit would be enhanced. BUT, the reason we haven't seen any fruit on it, is that our plants are all young, healthy, vigorous growing juvenile plants that haven't reached the fruiting stage yet. Later as they mature, I expect they will flower and set some fruit, but I hasten to emphasize that this selection is really grown for the beautiful foliage, so the production of berries is not that important. If you wish to have berries there's other fruiting selections that would be better.
could I grow this on an apartment balcony in zone 5a?
Yes, but plant it in a good big container that has plenty of drainage holes in the base and also, you might have to move the pot into a sheltered corner or wrap the pot in insulation to protect the roots from freezing solid during excessively cold winter periods. The tops of the plant should be fine, but the roots in the pot (which will be surrounded by freezing air) could get frozen solid, so that's why the protection would be necessary.
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They are located all over our Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region, and that's where you will find all sorts of beautiful, tried and true and cutting edge, top performing selections, so be sure to stop in regularly throughout the seasons because there will be a steady stream of fresh shipments coming in weekly.
Great video! Can you prune these down to ground in fall/winter and still grow on new wood? Thank you!
Yes, this is called "coppicing". It is a practice that goes back to early Roman times (and perhaps even beyond that)! When shoots or branches are cut back (hard) annually, it encourages strong vigorous, upright growing shoots, and in this case will produce gorgeous lacy foliage too. It was traditionally performed on species of willow, chestnut, hazel, Yew etc. for basketry, wattle fencing and weapons but as gardeners we can employ the same technique to ornamental plants like red stemmed dogwoods (Cornus), Elderberries (like this one), Red buds (Cercis), Smoke trees (Cotinus) etc.
They can be cut back in fall or winter, but I prefer to do it in early spring. If you would like to find out more about how to do it, here's a link to one of our videos where I cut back a very nice, red stemmed Dogwood (Cornus Neon Burst): czcams.com/video/E7btk90jg_Q/video.html
Coppicing your Elderberry is the same technique.
Does it bear fruit when near a native red elderberry?
It is descended from the native red elderberry. Which is (partly) why it does so well in our region.
And yes, maturing plants will produce the same type of red berries which birds and small animals will feed on.
But, unlike the black berries on Sambucus nigra, these berries are to be avoided by humans. Further more, it produces its flowers and fruit on older branches, so if you prune it annually (as we advocate and like to do), you will get a fabulous foliar display that is stunning, as well as being more compact and bushy.
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Can this be pruned to stay very small (like 2 ish ft)?
It is possible to prune them regularly and keep them smaller and bushy but, 2 feet is a lot and would be quite a task, because you would have to keep clipping it frequently. I would suggest somewhere around 4 to 5' might be more realistic.
So it is not Medicinal? I am looking for one to make tea, with the berry’s.
We just grow this one for its beautiful ornamental qualities. if you want the best fruiting forms then perhaps one of the nurseries that specialize in fruiting plants would be your best option.
Hello, will Lemony Lace do good in zone 9? in the shade with dappled sun?
I am afraid our only experience with growing it, is here in our Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region so we cannot help you much except to suggest that you look around you neighborhood or ask someone at your local garden centers.
@@OverdevestNurseries ; thank you. I ordered from home depot and they delivered to my zone to my surprise. Its been a month and the plants are in containers in dappled sun and good shade and seem to be doing well. I looked around my neighborhood and not one could be seen. Today at home depot I saw they had white peonies! Those plants are not for zone 9 ether. Unfortunately the days of local nurseries are long gone and all we have are garden centers.
@@CVenza I am zone 8b and have one.
Part sun at the most, preferably morning sun or dappled light.
I had mine in part sun but afternoon sun at first and it got wrecked. Thankfully I was able pot it up and bring it back to life.
Now I'm going to plant in morning sun and it should be fine.
@@CVenza Wish you had more local nurseries. Good luck on your plant! I think it would do well with dappled light and as cool conditions as you can for the roots.
@@denko44 ; thank you!
Can you eat the fruit? Or make tea from it?
It is really grown for its wonderful decorative effects. If you want to grow fruit, you would be better to get one of the selected fruiting sorts
Will bloom in the Spring? And approx. how many weeks of bloom time?
Thanks for your question. They usually flower in early summer and last for a couple of weeks. The flowers are fragrant and quite nice (small white, lacy looking) but not that showy... it really is grown for its SUPERB, long lasting foliage which is why we are suggesting it to you.
Are the berries edible?
It is really grown for the gorgeous foliage and superb ornamental value and we have never seen any berries on our plants.