Encouraging golden privet shrub growth. Published: Aug. 26, 2007, 6:04 p.m. By . bdegroff; Q: All eight of our golden privet have done fantastic for the last three or four years.

If you want privacy, plant privet. With regular pruning, this quick growing shrub can be shaped into an ideal landscape feature. Although one species makes a fine landscape tree, privets are first ...

You've never seen a shrub like this before. 'Sunshine' privet (Ligustrum sinense) is more straightforward to confine than the common privet, which has a sprawling nature. Privet is infamous for ...

KISMA focuses mainly on the border privet (Ligustrum obtusifolium), amur privet (Ligustrum amurense), and hybrids of the two. Common identifying characteristics include: woody shrub that grows around ...

The Chinese Privet Bonsai Tree is a small version of the Chinese privet shrub, usually growing up to 45cm in height. Its leaves are small and glossy, and its flowers bloom in clusters in the summer.

The Voice From the Privet Hedge. By Morris Bishop. August 5, 1955. Save this story. Save this story. The New Yorker, August 13, 1955 P. 24. As sweet Mrs. Pugh ...

Arriving in the mid-1800s from China, the fast-growing shrub was utilized as hedges in many landscapes. Unfortunately, these early plantings evolved into one of the worst invasives in the Southeast.

On Jan. 10, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture officially added burning bush and four species of privet to the Pennsylvania list of noxious weeds.

Burning bush shrubs may appear pretty in the fall, when their leaves turn a blazing bright red. But they also are pretty invasive, and this year they earned a spot on Pennsylvania’s list of ...