Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Acanthus and some secret ingredients

and some secret ingredients

We love this Eleanor Lachman introduction

and the late Lynn Lowery near Horsetail Falls

and begin their flowering season as early as mid-May in NC

The clumps of Verbascum chaixii 'Croatian Blood' are adorned with large

Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Acanthus and some secret ingredientsSambucus 'Chocolate Marzipan' is the Kraken of the elderberry world, and a garden designer's dream. We picked up this new, and still virtually unknown Edmund Brown hybrid during our 2020 UK travels, in our search for any dark foliaged sambucus that would survive our heat and humidity. This beast has done far more than survive, forming a massive 12' tall x 12' wide specimen with widely arching woody stems, clothed with large black foliage, and topped,