On 29 Nov 2004 at 5:55, Billy M. Rhodes wrote:

I have a plant, purchased from Miami Tropical a few years ago, but imported
from China. DS Tropicals on the West coast of Florida is selling the same
thing, some on EBAY
Is this what we are talking about?
It tends to send out a lot of new growth in warm weather. Small, round
leaves. Dries out very fast.
I keep my trimmed on a regular basis and have never seen a bloom.
It also gets black spot fungus.


It is NOT a tropical. Privet is one of the old, traditional
hedge plants (recently supplanted by many better ones,
thankfully) and was/is used in England as well as "up nawth."

I get no fungus on all of mine. Scale is a problem in late
summer and fall.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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On 29/11/2004 23:10:07, wrote:
Just check with your local council on it's [privet's] classification.


Funny that, I thought it was clear I had when I said:

It is considered a pest in most of New Zealand, though the local city
council folks told me that they think it an excellent form of control if
I
pull it out of the soil and pot it, as long as I control and limit
flowering

While the status in other areas of New Zealand is one of "search and
destroy", in our area, the official word is:


"...no longer permitted to be sold, propagated, distributed or commercially
displayed... ...land owners are not required to control it, but encouraged
to do so at their own discretion..."

Nic


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On 29/11/2004 23:10:07, wrote:
Just check with your local council on it's [privet's] classification.


Funny that, I thought it was clear I had when I said:

It is considered a pest in most of New Zealand, though the local city
council folks told me that they think it an excellent form of control if
I
pull it out of the soil and pot it, as long as I control and limit
flowering

While the status in other areas of New Zealand is one of "search and
destroy", in our area, the official word is:


"...no longer permitted to be sold, propagated, distributed or commercially
displayed... ...land owners are not required to control it, but encouraged
to do so at their own discretion..."

Nic


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