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Black Lace Elderberry for Floral Design and Edible Landscaping

Talk about dramatic!  The Black Lace Elderberry is a showy and easy to grow small shrub that is not only delightful to look at in landscaping, but makes wonderful floral designs in vases inside the home.   Add the fact that the Black Lace Elder is an edible plant (with the same precautionary constraints of all elderberry plants in terms of the poisonous parts) and there is nothing more that you could ask of any plant in terms of perfection.

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How To Arrange Flowers

Flower arrangements often dictate that they look right from different angles.  If the flowers are for the dining room table or a coffee table or perhaps in front of a mirror, the view must be equally good and pleasing from all angles.  Both sides need not be identical, but should be similar.  Knowing these facts is half the story, for the technique of “all around” (three dimensional) floral arrangements is a basic design principle guarantees success.

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