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Foot long panicles of creamy blooms arrive in June with a scent that reminds me of privet.
The front garden, behind the privet, was clipped to within an inch of its life, with a single standard rose in the dead centre.
Hedges of thorn and dog rose give way to hedges of neat privet, a suburban section where I felt a right Charlie booted and rucksacked.
The winds have picked up a bit, swirling the sour smell of privet blossoms around me, bringing on another bout of sneezing.
Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of the privet.
A boffin has invented a car that runs on grass, or pigeon poo, or privet cuttings.
Plants such as privet or barberry need severe pruning immediately after planting and at the beginning of the second year to make them bushy.
It's a technique that can be applied not only to yew but also to beech, privet, holly, hornbeam and box.
The overstory and understory are dominated by hackberry and privet, respectively.
He thought he saw a shadow move beneath the privet, but put it down to his paranoia and drew in a sharp breath.
There is parking in the communal gardens, which has a curving driveway, mature trees and shrubs, all bordered by a privet hedge.
Instead of a privet hedge, why not train apple trees to clothe a lattice?
Cutting over 60 yards of boundary hedge consisting of varying lengths of copper beech, laurel and privet is becoming an increasingly daunting task as the years pass.
Chinese privet is most abundant along margins of gravel and paved roads, where it often forms dense, impenetrable stands with relatively dark understories.
Chinese privet is present in eight of the 16 management areas surveyed.
When you plant a new hedge, prune vigorous shrubs, such as privet, by reducing the length of the branches and shrub height by one-fourth to one-third.
Raspberry, blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes had died, the privet hedge would soon be gone and vegetables wouldn't grow in the garden, only one of two affected.
The planting included oak, ash, crab-apple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, privet and dogwood and down by the ponds in River Field two areas of willows were planted.
How else would you peel an orange, or cut a sprig of privet blossom for your second-youngest daughter?
A high degree of cross-reactivity has been demonstrated between olive tree, ash and privet and all members of the Oleaceae family.
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Examples from Classical Literature
An inferior article is made from the juice of black alder, and of evergreen privet.
The copper beech, the high privet hedge and the willows beyond it, shut out both light and air.
She made a charming picture as she walked slowly the length of the privet hedge and then turned towards the copper beech again.
At the sides of the house were bushes of lilac and guelder-rose and privet, entirely hiding the farm buildings behind.
All over China, but especially in this part of szechuan, there grows a tree of the large-leaved privet species.
Sometimes these elevations are crowned with privet or some light hedge-plant.
The gate in the privet hedge of The Witan had had little rest all the afternoon.
It comes freely to sugar, and has been taken at privet blossom.
The larv, however, are to be met with in abundance in privet hedges.
Size matters with a tricky privet hedge 6 I have a green privet hedge that I find difficult to trim.
These include cuckoo pint which have bright orange poisonous berries, as well as the fruit of cherry laurel, privet and rhamnus.
Nothing was to be seen save that some body or bundle had been dragged through a low privet hedge which is in a line with the wood-pile.
And then the old tavern came into sight behind its new hedge of privet.
After all, the privet was thick and Tony might not have seen.
What's your notion of a California privet hedge and entertaining the same?
And the clipped privet bush by the trellis and the may tree by the gate.
Used a great deal for hedges before the days of the California privet.
They're basically hawthorn, with stretches of native privet, and several other species either self-sown or used to fill gaps.
My brother saw dimly through the dust that two men lifted out something on a white stretcher and put it gently on the grass beneath the privet hedge.
Passing along the Ridgeway to the west for about a mile, we come to a little clump of young beech and firs, with a growth of thorn and privet underwood.
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