Winter is usually quiet for most gardens. However, there are some things you can do to optimize your garden for spring. One ...

Known nowadays for their immunity-enhancing properties and high levels of antioxidants, elderberries have long been a tasty ingredient in pies, jellies, and wines. And types with purple or variegated ...

Growing American elderberry plants, also called American elder, is easy to do in most parts of the country. Native to North America, this large flowering and fruitful shrub attracts bees, butterflies, ...

Elder (also known as sambucus) is a bold, adaptable deciduous shrub grown for its leaves, frothy displays of flowers and edible berries. Its foliage could be described as shaped like giant rose leaves ...

The American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) is a native shrub to Illinois and much of eastern North America. Despite its weedy habit, often growing in natural areas and unmowed ditches, this plant ...

They are easy to miss for most of the year, but right now these native shrubs are laden with a bounty of purple fruits. Western elderberry (Sambucus mexicana) bushes grow in almost any situation. They ...

Taking root along the roadside and growing out of ditches all around the Lowcountry, the American elderberry (sambucus nigra or sambucus canadensis), stands tall with its showy white lace ...

Gardeners looking for a drought-tolerant and highly disease-resistant native shrub might consider adding the blue elderberry (Sambucus cerulean also known as Sambucus Mexicana) to their landscape.

Every year there’s a new fashionable herb on the market. It’s always some exotic thing that comes from afar with a foreign sounding name and a miracle cure. Yet we can sometimes forget what’s right ...

• Indigenous communities have tended and used elderberries as a sacred plant and medicine for centuries. Elderberries are ...

As indigenous peoples across the world discovered eons ago, every part of the elderberry plant serves a purpose for our survival. The tart, tiny fruits are loaded with illness-fighting nutrients. The ...