Small Fruit - E -  Plant Nursery

Blackberry - Ebony King
Ebony King Blackberry

Blackberry Ebony King, Rubus 'Ebony King', is large and has delicious purple berries that are perfect for baking. Excellent berry for pies, cobblers, turnovers, topping ice cream, and added to cereal. Ebony King's upright thornless canes bear fruit in summer before hot days set in. Picking is easy and fun! Blackberries fruit on two-year old canes. After they have finished fruiting, the canes should be pruned away at the base. Plants flower around the start of summer and fruit ripens about mid-July.

Elderberry - Sutherland Gold
Elderberry Sutherland Gold

The Sutherland Gold Elderberry, Sambucus racemosa 'Sutherland Gold', is an adaptable shrub, swift and vigorous in its growth. 'Sutherland Gold' can tolerate a great deal of sun and is frequently claimed to be more sun tolerant than 'Plumusa Aurea'. It may not bloom and fruit as fully in the deepest shade, so bright shade or dappled shade is the ideal. New spring leaves emerge golden with coppery highlights and sheen in late March soon mature to a rich golden yellow, and then very slowly turn lime-green in summer. The leaves are deeply cut, to the point that it has been described as looking like a gigantic fern. This elderberry is suitable for mixed or shrub borders or for naturalizing in wild areas. The fruits of this genus have culinary attributes when cooked, but can cause illness if eaten raw, or if the poisonous seeds are consumed. The Sutherland Gold Elderberry shrub prefers humus-rich moist well-draining soil, but can tolerate a wide range of soil conditions and is drought-hardy when well established. You will be pleased with this bright, airy shrub. Its dynamic presence brightens any shady corner!

Elderberry - Variegated
Elderberry Variegated

The Variegated Elderberry, Sambucus nigra 'Marginata', is similar to the species, except that the leaves have broad golden yellow margins at first, later paling to white-yellow. It has lacy, variegated, white edge foliage and tasty berries. Elderberries start to bear when 2 or 3 years of age. Allow fruit to ripen on the plant before picking. When the berries are ripe in September, they are good out of hand or use in preparing elderberry wine, jams and jelly. This hardy shrub is at ease in a woodland landscape or in the back of the border. Variegation is a cream color against a dark green background. Plant in sun or partial shade with at least 6 hours of sun per day. Variegated is not fussy about soil type and is adapted to most of the United States. Variegated Elderberry makes a great informal deciduous hedge or accent plant.