Pruning 'Black Lace' elderberry is an annual job if you want to keep it a shrub rather than small tree Updated: Jun. 21, 2011, 1:00 p.m. | Published: Jun. 21, 2011, 12:00 p.m.

Undaunted, Andy and I picked out our own Steeler surrogates - a 'Black Lace' elderberry with narrow black leaves, a couple of gold-leafed Mellow Yellow spireas, five pots of black mondo grass, and ...

Black Lace elderberry (Sambucus nigra 'Eva') is an eye-catching shrub for central Ohio gardens. The shrub is mostly mounding in shape with a few wild branches, which can be pruned.