Elderflower Trees - Sambucus nigra
The Common Elderflower or Elderberry is small tree or large shrub with graceful fern-like leaves.
It produces white flowers and black berries, both of which are used in elderflower cordial and wine making.
Using Elder for a hedge: Keep it out of mixed hedges.
It will push over the plants next to it and totally take over with time.
It can be planted in rows by itself as a vigorous, effective screening plant, but it will always have the look of a rough, country hedge.
Making Elderflower Cordial:Homemade Elderflower Cordial is a fabulous soft drink, and easy to make. You can buy all the
equipment you need to make Elderflower cordial here and feel free to use our own
elderflower cordial recipe.
Growing Elderflower trees:All Elder trees grow well on chalk and are happy in the worst soils. They love heavy clay and tolerate drought when they are mature.
On the farm next to our nursery, on top of a windy hill, there are several large Elderflower trees that are growing in the piled up rubble from a demolished cow shed.
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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £9.49 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
You can choose the delivery week that suits you during checkout and we will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.
Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.
Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.
Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.
Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.
