Privet has long been a popular hedging plant to provide a fast and dense screen. It is a quick-growing and versatile option for hedges, but one that needs regular pruning to keep it neat and ...

Evergreen hedges should be cut at least twice a year to keep these fast-growing plants neat and dense. The likes of box, yew, privet, laurel, or holly have been popular as low maintenance hedge ...

Enter the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), a common fast growing, semi-evergreen shrub in the olive family, which could provide a low-cost and more geographically ubiquitous source of these valuable ...