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5 articles, 2 topics. A growing library.
Growing elderberry: tree, bush, or shrub, and how to plant it
Both labels are right, because the form depends on the species and on how you prune it. A guide organised by species to siting, planting, pollination, cultivars, and the yearly cut, written by people who work with the European plant.
The Holler-Frau: Elder in European Folk Belief
Hyldemoer, hyllefru, the Old Lady: across Europe a guardian figure dwells in the elder, and anyone who wished to cut it asked permission. An ethnographic ramble through a well attested motif, with an honest note on the Frau Holle hypothesis.
Elder in Antiquity: what Dioscorides and Pliny actually write
Two elders, one name: why the ancient catalogue of uses is printed, in Dioscorides, of all places within the entry for the toxic-berried dwarf elder, yet the text assigns it to the true elder right alongside, and how Pliny refers the remedies to both species. A walk through the classical loci, sorted cleanly by species and plant part.
The Round of the Year: Elder and Rosehip Through the Seasons
A walk through the plant year of elder and dog rose, season by season: what the shrubs do, what the human eye can read from them, and which customs have been handed down alongside.
The elder harvest. When is good enough?
The harvest window for black elder is narrow, often only about ten days from early to mid September. When the berries are ripe, how to harvest the umbels and bring the fruit into the pot the same day, with our family's thumb test.