4 Black Elderberry Plants – Choose from 10 Varieties

Grow your own flavorful elderberries with four robust, well-rooted Black Elderberry plants. Choose from 10 American and European varieties, each offering its own combination of growth habits, fruit production, and growing characteristics.

Elderberries produce intensely flavored, aromatic, dark berries that are popular for homemade jams, preserves, pies, syrups, and wine. Their attractive flowers and fruit also bring seasonal interest to the garden and attract birds and butterflies.

You will receive 4 live plants, each rooted in soil and shipped in its own pot.

Plant Details

• Quantity: 4 live elderberry plants

• Varieties: Choose from 10 available selections

• Plant age: 2 years

• Approximate height: 20–30 inches

• Plants are well rooted and shipped in soil in separate pots

• Plants may be pruned to approximately 12 inches if needed for shipping

• Mature height: Approximately 6–14 feet, depending on variety

• Light: Full sun to approximately three-quarter sun

Please list your four preferred varieties in the Special Instructions for Seller when ordering.

Available American Black Elderberry Varieties

1. Ranch
A productive, compact variety with excellent drought tolerance. A good choice for smaller or urban gardens, and noted for its adaptability to less fertile soils and challenging climates. USDA Zones 3–8.

2. Pocahontas
A large-growing variety that can reach approximately 14 feet. Produces large flowers and high yields, but needs a long growing season for its berries to ripen. Suitable as a hedge or specimen plant. USDA Zones 4–9.

3. York
Known for large creamy-white flowers and exceptionally large purple-black berries. The sweet, juicy fruit is suitable for jelly, juice, pies, and wine. Productive and drought tolerant, with colorful fall foliage. USDA Zones 3–9.

4. Nova
A hardy, productive variety bearing large, sweet purple-black berries. A good choice for jams, jellies, pies, and wine. Ripens earlier than York. USDA Zones 3–9.

5. Bob Gordon
A prolific producer with upright-growing berry clusters that can make harvesting easier and help reduce berry drop. Known for higher sugar content and rich flavor. USDA Zones 4–9.

6. Wyldewood
A robust elderberry hybrid with large clusters of fragrant white flowers in early summer, followed by heavy crops of dark purple-black berries. USDA Zones 3–9.

7. Ozark
A fast-growing, heavy-producing American selection with large clusters of creamy-white flowers and dark purple berries. USDA Zones 4–9.

8. Adams
A high-yielding American selection chosen from wild eastern North American populations in the early 20th century. Known for vigor, cold hardiness, and reliability. USDA Zones 3–9.

Available European Black Elderberry Varieties

9. Haschberg
A European Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) valued for abundant fruit production and robust growth. Adaptable to USDA Zones 4–8.

10. Marge
A European Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) with ornamental and edible qualities. The only variety in this selection described as truly self-fertile. It grows faster than other varieties and is among the highest-yielding selections. USDA Zones 5–8.

Pollination and Fruit Production

Most elderberry varieties benefit from planting two varieties together for improved pollination and fruit production. Marge is the exception in this selection and is described as truly self-fertile.

A mature plant may produce up to 30 pounds of berries under suitable growing conditions. Actual production varies with variety, maturity, pollination, and growing conditions.

Culinary Uses and Important Safety Information

Elderberries have an intensely flavored fruit with a rich aroma. They can be used in:

• Jams and preserves

• Pies and baked goods

• Syrups

• Juice and wine

Important: All parts of the elderberry plant contain toxic compounds. Do not eat raw berries or other plant parts. Only properly prepared, cooked berries should be used for food. Keep leaves, stems, roots, and unripe fruit out of food preparations.

Shipping and Plant Care Upon Arrival

• Free shipping to most locations.

• Larger boxes or shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, APO addresses, U.S. Territories, and locations considered remote may require a freight surcharge.

• Orders may be held when temperatures are above 89°F or below 20°F until conditions improve.

• All plants are inspected for quality before shipment.

Please inspect your plants when they arrive. If there is shipping damage, message us promptly and include photos of the package and plants so we can help resolve the issue.

Please contact us before ordering if you have questions about varieties, shipping, or growing conditions.

Choose your four varieties in the Special Instructions for Seller when ordering.