Sambucus 'Black Tower' elite-summer-bulbs and just a touch darker

and just a touch darker than the surrounding halo—it’s the kind of daffodil that marches confidently into spring with its head held high

soft peach-pink flowers

there is nothing remotely spiky about these garden charmers

unfurling like silken fans through the height of summer

Sambucus 'Black Tower' elite-summer-bulbs and just a touch darkerSambucus 'Black Tower' is a black elder with a sense of architecturetall, statuesque, and dressed entirely in deep purple. This upright deciduous shrub (or small tree if you let it) is far from ordinary, producing vertical columns of dark, almost black foliage that shimmer when caught by the sun. Its leaves first emerge green before maturing into their signature inky tones, creating a dramatic foil for everything planted nearby. In late spring,