Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Acanthus and the late Lynn Lowery

and the late Lynn Lowery near Horsetail Falls

and some secret ingredients

We love this Eleanor Lachman introduction

we hand-crossed flowering plants of Agave lophantha with pollen from Agave x pseudoferox 'Logan Calhoun' (our name for plants we now believe to be hybrids of Agave americana

ending in dark purple flowers that just top the foliage

Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Acanthus and the late Lynn LowerySambucus 'Chocolate Marzipan' is the Kraken of the elderberry world, and a garden designer's dream. We picked up this new, and still virtually unknown Edmund Brown hybrid during our 2020 UK travels, in our search for any dark foliaged sambucus that would survive our heat and humidity. This beast has done far more than survive, forming a massive 12' tall x 12' wide specimen with widely arching woody stems, clothed with large black foliage, and topped,