ELDER FLOWER

EDIBLE FLOWERS

 Prolific cream flowers with delightful sweet aroma and sweet muscatel grape flavour. Add to salads, punches, fruit compote, muffin mix, corn fritters, cordials, jellies, champagne.

FLOWER PARTNERS

 Cream Elder Flower, blue Borage and yellow and purple Heartsease make colourful garnish companions.

LANDSCAPE

 Plant at 1 m centres to make a quick growing hedge. Cream flowers spring to autumn.

CULTIVATION

 Wet! Deciduous shrub to 4 m high. Contain roots or remove suckers as they appear.

BOTANIC NAME

 Sambucus nigra