Sorry Baz, to decide on a style from your description is nigh on impossible.
Privet could be grown in virtually all styles. I would just keep cutting
back all new growth repeatedly to 2 leaves to increase ramification for now.
Could you get a photograph onto our gallery?

Cheers

Kev Bailey


Can some kind person please advise what is the best style to
grow a privet
I have a large piece of root that was given to me from an uprooted hedge I
put the root in a bucket with garden soil in spring last year and it has
now
got many shoots the part of the root that is now trunk is about 2 inches
thick
and sticks up out of the bucket about 6 inches

Any suggest would be most helpful
Baz

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