No matter what time it is in my garden, it’s always time to clip the privet.\u00a0 It bounds the front yard on three sides and thrives on a diet of neglect and neighbors’ complaints.\u00a0 I trim and trim.\u00a0 When I am finished with the entire hedge, I start all over again.\u00a0 If I relax with a glass of iced tea within sight of the hedge, it doubles its growth efforts.<\/p>\n
Admittedly privet makes a good privacy screen, though I don’t do anything interesting enough to excite the neighbors anyway.\u00a0 Unlike a fence, it isn’t demolished by an onslaught of heavy, wet snow or downed tree branches.\u00a0 Once the snow or limbs are removed it waits a day or two, then bounces back up and gets back to the business of climbing into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n
When I am not pruning the privet, I get on my knees to weed out the various rampant species that grow underneath.\u00a0 Among them is the only thing with the horticultural chutzpah go mano a mano with the privet–bird-sown mulberry.\u00a0 I would let the two species duke it out, but I have a feeling that I would be the only loser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No matter what time it is in my garden, it’s always time to clip the privet.\u00a0 It bounds the front yard on three sides and thrives on a diet of neglect and neighbors’ complaints.\u00a0 I trim and trim.\u00a0 When I am finished with the entire hedge, I start all over again.\u00a0 If I relax with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,2,3],"tags":[86,85,82,83,84,79,80,78,81],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall","category-general-interest","category-spring","category-summer","tag-fast-growing-hedges","tag-garden-maintenance","tag-hedge-clipping","tag-hedge-pruning","tag-indestructable-hedges","tag-ligustrum","tag-mulberry","tag-privet","tag-pruning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}