Are my Privets dead?
ritholtz47
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
We have a privet shrub providing nice privacy from the street. We have whole length of plot. They turned brown after recent cold snap on TX. Do i need to prune them and see if they comes back. Removing and planting them going to be expensive and time consuming. Please provide your suggestions.
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ritholtz47
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoRelated Discussions
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Comments (19)Hello, Bart! I'm always pleased to talk about my garden, and glad to hear about yours. There are several different ligustrums common in Italy. The two I like are the common, small-leafed hedging privet, I think the botanical name is Ligustrum obtusifolium, and California privet, L. ovalifolium, with slightly larger leaves of a fresher green, and needing a bit more water. There are other privets around, including a large-leafed one that reaches tree size; there's a yellow-variegated form I often see: this variety doesn't do anything for me, it's rigid for my taste. And L. japonicum, with very glossy dark green leaves like a camellia, common as grass in Florida, not as well adapted as others to my garden, though I have three chlorotic plants due to DH's activities while my back was turned. Two other common evergreen hedging shrubs are photinia or red-top, another old friend from Florida, and, chief of all evergreen hedging shrubs, English laurel, lauroceraso, Prunus laurocerasus. The photinia wandered into our garden by accident and at least in shade is more drought tolerant and all-resistant than I would have given it credit for. It has rather pleasant foliage. English laurel is horribly over- and misused. It doesn't like full sun or being kept too low, but I've seen a hedge 10' x 6', under a big old oak, that was honestly handsome. I had to battle a hedge of English laurel at my old house in Washington and I'm not fond of the plant. I could say more about my experiences with evergreen shrubs and hedging shrubs, but I don't know what you would be interested in hearing, and also am not in the best of health at the moment. Is your blue salvia the native S. pratensis? We have that, and I agree you have to watch it, but it's handsome and tough. It grows by the side of the road and in neglected fields here. The red one I'm familiar with but am not sure of the name, but I dislike masses of bright color in bedding schemes. Culinary sage is good-looking, except in winter when it gets shabby; it flowers handsomely and has good foliage and fine drought tolerance. Mine self-seeds. The cultivar 'Ictarina' can take just about anything and is the prettiest yellow-variegated plant I know. I have the highest opinion of S. greggii for a dry garden, for beauty and for toughness. There are a lot of fabulous sages out there. What I have have all been passed on to me by various gardening friends. The Petrovic roses were entirely satisfactory and I recommend the nursery, however you have to make a big order to justify the shipping and import charges. It's worth it. The selection of varieties of wonderful. I wasn't able to organize myself this year for another large order, but am hoping to be able to do so in a year's time. I adore all those once-blooming old roses, even though we need a cool spring for them to bloom well. I'd put them all down in the shade garden if I could, but there's just not enough room for them. Gean, we had wax myrtles in Florida, too, but they're not even listed in Dirr's Manual. I'm always suspicious of plants from the eastern U.S. for my garden here, as rainfall patterns are so different in the two places. The Pacific Northwest is climatically much closer, of course. I've been working clearing and even planting a couple of things down in the woods below the shade garden, and getting excited about the potential for a whole different flora than what grows out in the sunny garden. It's already pretty there, and I've hardly even begun planting yet. Melissa...See MoreCan you ID this privet-eating worm?
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agofloral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
3 years agoritholtz47
3 years agoHi
Top ones and small ones are snapping. Some of them are at lower height, are bending. Thanks for the information.
Christopher CNC
3 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
3 years agoritholtz47
3 years agoritholtz47
3 years agoritholtz47
2 years agoHi,
Plants started growing from bottom. But it is still dry most of top section. Branches are too big to trim. Thinking about trimming small dear Branches and leave the big ones. Hopefully they can grow around them. What do you guys recommemd?
cyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
2 years agoritholtz47
2 years agoWhat tools do I need to use to cut. Small ones I am going to hack it with electric trimmer. I used a saw to cut other one. But it took so long to cut dead wood.
Christopher CNC
2 years agoritholtz47
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
2 years agoChessie
2 years agoritholtz47
2 years agoHi
I used craftsman bow saw and cut the branches as close to the bottom as possible. It took lot of time. City picked up all the branches. We got lucky with that. Otherwise it would have been lot of money to hire some one to dispose.
Christopher CNC
2 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
2 years ago
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