On 03/02/2017 09:07, Stuart Noble wrote:
On 03/02/2017 07:56, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 02/02/17 23:15, David Rance wrote:

But there are versions of privet which do lose their leaves. I have a
privet hedge where some of the plants seem to be deciduous and the rest
evergreen. Makes for an interesting-looking boundary in winter!

The most common hedging privet seen in the UK is Ligustrum ovalifolium.
That is evergreen unless the winter is severe when it will lose some of
its leaves. In my garden there is a plant of L. vulgare. I assume it is
self-sown as I can't think of any reason why anyone would want this
scruffy, uninteresting, sparsely-berried, deciduous plant!

Escallonia? Next door's is looking good here in SE London.

Its very nice but a bit fragile in colder exposed regions. OP needs to
give some indication where he lives and how exposed the site is.

My hedges are exposed directly to North Yorkshire gales and sometimes
falling trees. It takes them a while to recover from a tree hit.

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Martin Brown