"Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message k...
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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"Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message
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Does anyone know where I can purchase a couple of elder shrubs, Sambucus
Nigra, in the Liverpool area?
If you're down in Berks when the berries are out, somewhere outside
Reading is the Courage Brewery Shire Horse Centre, at the back of
which are (or used to be) some very fine ones with extra-big berries:

If I'm reading your mind right, once your trees are established feed
and mulch them for a good crop.

Mike.

Thanks for the advice. I am hoping to get the children to plant an area of
my school with native UK plants this year. Elder is surprisingly hard to
source.

Ah, right: not winemaking! We did a school wild-life area once: a
marvellous experience, and if I lived near you I'd be right there
making a nuisance of myself. Have you asked the Council people where
they get their trees? We got some good freebies from them. The local
Conservation Volunteers? the Woodland Trust? the County Naturalists'
Association (or similar name)? (You don't mention how urban your
school is; but even in cities there are things like that going on.)

By all means email me if you want me to dig out some rusty knowledge.

Mike.