Ligustrums: What are they good for?
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Privet Hedges (Ligustrum) - Dormant or Growing?
Comments (1)they have been in the ground only 2 months... and are already thinking about more fert??? you will kill these things with too much love ... they are shrubs.. not children ... i have NEVER fert'd a shrub.. ever... they dont need it.. so dont ever waste your money in the regard again.. as far as i am concerned.. spend it all on water .... and i suspect.. that the only thing failing here.. is your expectation of what a new transplant can do.. in two freakin months ... they are growing roots.. which you can not see.. thats this years job.... insure proper water.. and nothing else.. for the next two years ... see link.. if you varied from anything in brandons directions.. lets discuss such ... your recent transplants need to get 'established' ... grow roots to support the growth above.. next year ..... and that requires.. wait for it.. water .. nothing else.. you can not force feed them into becoming established ... please dont love them to death.. just water them .. see link ... ken Here is a link that might be useful: link...See MoreLigustrum flowering, pruning: what's the secret?
Comments (17)Jeanne--gorgeous! I love that canopy look they give. I'm sure your yard smelled fantastic when you snapped that picture. I'll try posting a picture soon, Omar. I don't spray broad application insecticides. I have too many beneficial insects that I don't want to take out. Last year on my ligustrums there was a wonderful spinyback orbweaver that lived for several weeks on a really ornate web there, catching all kinds of mosquitoes and things. Even the assassins, who I don't want to personally encounter, eat bad bugs and keep the balance tipped toward good. Wow, I sound like such a bug freak. I have come a long way. I actually rescued a tiny spider from my bathroom today rather than smashing it. It was dangling from the ceiling on a web right at eye level, and it brought back memories of my youth. A spider as small as a piece of fuzz once lowered itself on a web in front of my face as I practiced the piano, and I screamed like the dickens. Scared the spider enough to send it back up the web, but my dad came and smashed it anyway. LOL Anyway, the ligustrums are *okay* this year. We've been pruning them and trying to give them a better shape than their random hack-job blobbiness that they possessed when we bought the house. I'm planting some marigolds and zinnias from seed underneath them, so maybe there will be a little more color and happiness in that spot later this summer. I was just wondering when and how to prune them to encourage the best blooming next spring....See MoreAnother ligustrum Q: good alternatives?
Comments (23)Cherry Laurel is an native alternative for waxleaf ligustrum. Mountain laurel will grow in that spot but is not a fast grower but once it does it is evergreen and very nice. Strawberry guava, Salvia regla will get close to 8' in time but it will like only quick draining soils. Texas barberry, Wax Myrtle is a great alternative. One can train it into a small multi trunk tree as it gets older and get something going underneath it . But it does make a hedge also. Rusty Blackhaw is a beauty and will take afternoon sun . Carolina buckthorn. Texas persimmon ( beautiful peeling bark), This post was edited by wantonamara on Sat, Jun 22, 13 at 13:31...See MorePulled out the wax ligustrum but not sure what to replace it with.
Comments (2)I wouldn't plant anything else there, they all will fill in nice, there really isn't any room left. If you want something that blooms, why not plant clematis by the boxwoods. Let it climb where it wants, it will bloom and look nice and it plays well with others. You can buy small vines, and they will grow in with your shrubs. That way, you won't have to remove any shrubs in the future because it's too crowded....See Moremyparadyze
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