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Fri, Apr 14, 06 at 18:00
| I am planting a black lace elderberry to partially hide a huge hideous electrical box in my front yard. It will need some friends to help do the job - anybody have any ideas? |
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| Something silvery. |
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| Sambucus Aurea (Golden Elderberry) |
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- Posted by amateur_expert z6 MD (My Page) on Sat, Apr 15, 06 at 8:16
| I've heard that other elderberrys can be invasive with their suckers... is golden elderberry like this? |
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| I've never seen a shrubby (woody) elder of any species spread below the ground. I may have seen a bit of layering a few times, although I can't say when or where. |
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| Madonna variegated golden elderberry would be a good one as well. Its the same species (sambucus nigra) so should help with setting fruit. Black lace might be a little less vigorous than other elders because of the cut leaves. I'd like to try one out, but i don't want to mail order just one plant. |
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- Posted by two_munkeys z6 ON (My Page) on Sun, Apr 16, 06 at 10:13
| No ideas to offer, but wanted to say just make sure you don't plant too close to the box. Maybe check city ordinances about this too. On my street a neighbour planted a garden to block his view of an electrical box, but when the city came to do maintenance on the box a few years later, they cut down a beautiful globe blue spruce and some spireas (and trampled his perennial bed doing it), because they were within 3' of the box. Apparently it was a city ordinance that none of us knew about. |
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| I planted a pink beautybush (Kolkwitzia amabilis) next to mine. I thought the pink flowers of the beautybush would look nice to the dark foliage of the Black Lace. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Beautybush
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| That was nice that they cut down that expensive spruce without even giving your friend a chance to move it first. Can't they send out notices? |
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| I was thinking Lavender which is silvery. Dax |
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| I've read before that elderberries often have a somewhat rustic appearance. How "coarse looking" are this elderberry's branches during the winter? |
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| I can't address the tall companion question, but I found alchemilla mollis growing up through the branches is lovely. And I imagined a rich pink something, like the flowers of the dark elderberry, might be nice...I'm trying a pink columbine in back, but it is too pale. |
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