The Witch’s Tree at a ditch near you

Kitty Scully talks about the Sambucus nigra or the Elderflower tree.

No other flower heralds summer quite like the elderflower bringing promise of cordials and hazy summer days.

Its heady, sweet scent permeates country lanes, roadsides, graveyards, parks and gardens and its sprays (umbels), containing hundreds of tiny five-petalled flowers, have more uses than any other single species of blossom.