LIGUSTRUM ovalifolium

Korean privet, California privet, garden privet, oval-leaved privet

LIGUSTRUM ovalifolium

Korean privet, California privet, garden privet, oval-leaved privet

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  • Maintenance advice : Prune it to the desired shape if necessary, at the end of winter or after the flowering in July. Pruning often suppressed the flowering of the year.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : Japan; introduced in 1847 in California (US)
  • Use group : Sträucher
  • Height at 10 years : 3 m
  • Width at 10 years : 2 m
  • Growth : Fast
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Indifferent
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Semi evergreen
  • Shape : bushy
  • Colour of leaves : Green
  • Colour of flowers : Cream white
  • Soil type : Garden soil
  • Uses : Hedge
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Upright and bushy shrub that tolerates pruning well, which makes it quick and easy to form it as a hedge. Its semi-evergreen and elliptic foliage of 2 to 6 cm long is dark green with lighter undersides. In June-July, it bears perfumed and creamy flowers organised in panicles of 5 to 12 cm long and in october-november, black fruits of 5 to 7 mm diameter. It tolerates both cold and hot weather as well as pollution. It can grow in any type of soils, even dry soils in summer, and tolerates any exposure.