Deciduous privet
LeifUK
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I think I asked this last year, but I'll try again in case there are new answers. I planted a privet - Ligustrum ovalifolium - hedge along my front garden boundary, 3 or 4 years ago. It is now 4 foot tall, looks lovely in summer, but is completely bare of leaves from December to late April. It was intended as a privacy hedge. All the privet hedges I see are pretty much evergreen, including across the road, and around the corner. Does anyone else have a deciduous privet? Could this be a lifecycle thing e.g. as it ages it retains more leaves? Or could it be a feed thing e.g. a deficiency? I suspect it is simply a deciduous variety/form of the species.
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I think golden privet is only evergreen if it's warm all year around, so it's probably too cold wherever you are! It shouldn't be feed etc. usually if the leaves all fall off for any other reason the plant has likely died.
This should be evergreen.
A photo may help if you have one
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
L. ovalifolium is a deciduous species of Privet. If you want an evergreen one you should plant L. japonicum.
Well actually L ovalifolium is widely described by garden centres and nurseries in the UK as evergreen or semi-evergreen, and my neighbours specimens retain most of their leaves.For example:
https://www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/acatalog/common_privet_hedge.html?gclid=COa3zcLz1swCFRATGwodFPEIng
That is why I am wondering why mine is so different and hence the question here. Maybe I will contact Hilliers, since it came from them.
You haven'y got the native Ligustrum vulgare by accident have you? That is a deciduous species.