Black Beauty Elderberry Strawberry and feed your early spring

and feed your early spring pollinators

the bush produces unusually large

Stanley plums are excellent for fresh eating

pear-shaped fruit with creamy

spicy/nutty

Black Beauty Elderberry Strawberry and feed your early springSambucus nigra 'Black Beauty' A spectacular edible ornamental bush for your yard, Black Beauty grows about 10' tall with deep, dusky, burgundy purple foliage. Lemon scented masses of pink flower clusters smother the bush in early summer, contrasting perfectly with the foliage. Black Beauty bears a surprisingly large yield of edible black berries in early fall. This was one of the first of the ornamental varieties of European elder, and remains one of