Companion Planting & Garden Value: Elderberry

Sambucus canadensis

Spacing: needs about 16 square feet per plant. Mature height: 8-10 ft.

Pollination

Self-fertile: one plant, on its own, sets fruit. Self-fertile, but plant two different cultivars nearby for reliable pollination and a meaningfully bigger crop than one variety gives alone. (source)

Plant these nearby

No well-established companions.

Keep these apart

Nothing it needs to be kept away from.

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Companion planting for Elderberry: which plants to grow next to it, which to keep apart, and the reason behind each pairing.

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