Sambucus canadensis prophouse-on-the-horizon sometimes shallowly three-lobed and carried

sometimes shallowly three-lobed and carried on long stalks

The late bloom is the point

self-supporting stems and clean

Buxus bodinieri

organic floor of a woodland understory

Sambucus canadensis prophouse-on-the-horizon sometimes shallowly three-lobed and carried3 Gallon, pick up only. Some plants seem woven into the memory of the land, and Sambucus canadensis, the American elderberry, is one of them. Found along fence rows, creek banks, and the forgotten edges of old fields, this native shrub has long kept company with the settler's dooryard and the woodland wanderer's path alike, as useful as it is familiar. A generous grower, the elderberry rises in loose thickets of arching canes, crowned in early summer