"Fran Higham" wrote in message ...
"Tara Deen" wrote in message
snippety Snippety

The trouble is to catch it at the right time to do it. I dream of it too
but have never managed yet to get to the flowers when they are just right.
However, if I did get to it at the right time, its suckering habit would be
a bonus because of all the flower heads.

Why is this a problem? You aren't on the property when it flowers? Too
busy?
It only flowers at midnight on the new moon on the tird day of .....?
Discussions with the previous owners of my new pace reveal they
bottled both Elderberry Flower Wine & Elderbarry Wine every year for
the last 27 or so.
Maybe they sit & watch & wait then pounce?
The quince tree made me buy the house! I fell so in love with the
twisted,knarled old monstrosity that they could have sold be a humpy &
I wouldn't have noticed.
When I got home & had the photos developed I discovered I had bought a
solid brick gem of a house in 100% condition.
Most of the garden that crammed English Cottage style. The remainder
is vegies & fruit trees .The soil is astonishingly fertile in itself
but has been given a boost with huge amounts of seaweed over the
decades.A well sits just outside the back door with a permanent
mineral spring flowing into it.
Think I've dropped dead & gone to heaven.Someone pinch me!

Ayn Marx