Greetings @felixxx ,
Thank you!
Enjoyed your post..smiling all through it.
Perhaps it is the challenge we humans enjoy when it comes to gardening, who knows...when instead if we discovered what prospered in our area we could easily have success as you are saying here...so true.
Lovely to have an Elderberry tree/bush in your own garden...In England, the Elderberry likes to send out root runners and they grow into trees as well ...was the reason the gardeners never liked them.
The aroma of the tree in bloom is memorable...happy to hear you have one.
Cheers!