Have you ever wondered whether some plants are just a bit overrated plants? It’s an unspoken truth that many of the world’s ...

Fast-growing evergreen shrubs or trees like Leylandii, Thuja, or Bamboo along the boundary of your garden can help with privacy. Grow a dense hedge using plants like Boxwood, Privet, or Laurel.

Chinese privet has managed to outcompete other plants so well thanks to adopting tree-like behavior despite being a shrub. Specifically, it has notably wide leaf coverage, able to catch sunlight, and ...

Lorna Waide of Stoke suffers extreme hay fever type symptoms every time she gets near the huge Privet hedge near her house.Patrick Hamilton Hayfever sufferer Lorna Waide is appealling to Nelson ...

Privet has glossy, 1-inch oval leaves that grow opposite each other along arching branches. Its white flowers, blooming in late spring, are actually quite pretty. But please don't let that fool you.

They can shade out and exclude native understory species, perhaps even reduce new tree growth. According to a map on the Invasive Plant Atlas, which is based on county-level reports made by experts, ...

The city has placed a "bounty" on the Bradford pear tree, bush honeysuckle, Chinese privet, tree of heaven, golden bamboo, English ivy and heavenly bamboo.

Fayetteville residents can once again receive a free native tree or shrub in exchange for removing invasive plants from their property. Now in its seventh year, the city’s invasive plant “bounty” ...

The city of Arlington has 400 new employees with four stomachs, cloven hooves and a penchant for mischief. The city announced last week it will use goats to chow down on privet shrubs that were ...

Northland is also home to one of the oldest privet trees in the country, with a tree at Edmonds Ruins, near Kerikeri, possibly be more than 100years old. Advertisement Advertise with NZME.

Researchers have found a way to increase quantities of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds extracted from privet trees, a relative of the olive tree. The corresponding study was published in ...