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.