Solved An easy one!

Can anyone remind me what the little shrub is called? It’s a bit like an acer, and has nice purple leaf with little pinky white flowers.

Can you also let me know if I just did something daft! I spotted light green shoots and clipped them off thinking it was how sometimes plants revert back to a parent plant that was a different colour! But then it immediately occurred to me that new maybe all new growth is green and turns purple!!! Oops!!

 

One of the ornamental Elders

 

Thanks.... and now ive found my answer! The new is green at first! So I shouldn’t have just chopped it off!!

 

Sambucus nigra

 

Yep, I've got one too. I asked on here last year just after I joined as there was one locally, and it was so beautiful I wanted one too. The one nearby is about five feet tall.