Ranch Elderberry

Ranch Elderberry Bush (Sambucus canadensis 'Ranch') is a smaller, more compact selection of native American Elderberry makes the fruit easier to harvest` An excellent anti-viral use to fight colds and flu, Elderberry is great for making wines and preserves and considered a superfruit!

The big fluffy, flat-topped blooms are comprised of loads of tiny little white blossoms! These are a favorite among butterflies, bees and beneficial insects! The tropical-looking foliage is long and comprised of many smaller leaflets that form and fill out fast! In August or September, the berries form and are highly desirable to songbirds and wildlife!

Ranch Elderberry Bushes are hardy and adaptable throughout USDA growing zones 3 through 9. These shrubs form compact 5-6 feet in mature height and width, growing fast and slowly spreading by suckers that are easily controlled with pruning.

Planting and Application:

Ranch Elderberry is great for screening and privacy, the tropical leafy foliage makes ideal informal hedges! Edible gardening shrubs are ideal double-duty shrubs with delectable clusters of berries that hang heavy each late summer. These are great flowering ornamentals with loads of superfruit that taste great in syrups, jam and dried for tea!

These bushes fill out in medicinal and frilly flowers that are great as backdrops in pollinator gardens and the fruiting shrubs are also great along the north end of your veggie or kitchen garden! These are great wildlife and songbird shrubs and ideal shelterbelts and windbreaks that carry 3 seasons of interest. Elderberry fruit forms large clumps that spread slowly via suckering growth, these create their own natural groves!

• Flat Clusters of White Blossoms
• Big Clumps of Black Berries
• Tropical Green Foliage
• Great Pollinator, Songbird & Wildlife Shrubs
• Hedges, Informal Screens & Shelterbelts

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Elderberry bushes prefer moist soil and full sun, but are tolerant of a wide variety of soil conditions and even partial shade (but you’ll have significantly fewer flowers and fruit). Provide a mulched location and renewal prune in late winter leaving the thinner younger stems but removing the 3-year-old and older stems down to the ground.

• Full Sun
• Moist Well-Drained Soil
• Highly Adaptable
• Prune When Dormant
• Fall Color!

Ranch Elderberry Bushes are fantastic, compact edible and medicinal plants that are a huge boost to pollinators, birds and wildlife in your area! Order your own ornamental edible Elderberry bushes today at NatureHills.com!