The Privet hedge plant is probably one of the most common and most popular fast growing hedging species and it's particularly well suited to urban areas and gardens because it's so good at pollution absorption. Privet is a semi evergreen rather than a full evergreen so in cold winters or exposed situations it will lose some of its leaves and look a bit thinner, but it will retain leaves and a green appearance all year round and looks particularly good in spring and summer when the new leaves flush out. Privet has creamy white flowers but it's not known as a flowering hedging species and generally the flowers are just trimmed off when the hedge is clipped. This species is very easy to trim with shears or electric hedge trimmers and has small leaves so looks very neat when just trimmed. It will grow up to 4m but is very easily kept neat at 1.0m upwards. Flowers mid May mid July producing white flowers. Grows 30 60cm per year. Supplied as 60 90cm bare roots.Pollution tolerantFast Growing
Wild Privet differs from the Common Privet in that its leaves are longer and slimmer, it's creamy white flowers that show in summer, are very attractive to insects and it produces bunches of shiny black fruits in autumn much loved by thrushes. Leave
Wild Privet differs from the Common Privet in that its leaves are longer and slimmer, it's creamy white flowers that show in summer, are very attractive to insects and it produces bunches of shiny black fruits in autumn much loved by thrushes. Leave
The most common hedging plant of the Laurels is Cherry Laurel and it's not the country's biggest selling hedge plant species without good reason! Cherry Laurel is a fast growing hedge without being a bully, with large, glossy bright green leaves, is
