New and Unread Tree-Mails
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Golden Privet |
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Golden Ligustrum |
| Ligustrum Vicaryi |
| Plant Habit: | Shrub |
| Life cycle: | Perennial |
| Sun Requirements: | Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade |
| Water Preferences: | Mesic |
| Soil pH Preferences: | Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5) Neutral (6.6 – 7.3) Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8) |
| Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F) |
| Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 8b |
| Plant Height: | 8-10 feet |
| Plant Spread: | 8-10 feet |
| Leaves: | Unusual foliage color Evergreen Semi-evergreen Deciduous Other: Bright yellow, aging to chartreuse yellow-green and turning purplish-red in fall. Foliage color mostly green if grown in lower light. |
| Fruit: | Showy Other: Small purplish-black drupes, each containing one to four seeds. |
| Flowers: | Showy Malodorous Blooms on old wood |
| Flower Color: | White |
| Bloom Size: | Under 1" |
| Flower Time: | Late winter or early spring Spring Late spring or early summer |
| Suitable Locations: | Xeriscapic |
| Uses: | Windbreak or Hedge |
| Wildlife Attractant: | Bees Butterflies |
| Resistances: | Deer Resistant Pollution Fire Resistant Humidity tolerant Drought tolerant Salt tolerant |
| Propagation: Other methods: | Cuttings: Stem |
| Containers: | Not suitable for containers |
| Posted by Skiekitty (Denver Metro - Zone 5a) on Jan 26, 2012 9:52 AM This does NOT like to get dried out. Needs almost constant moisture. Not good for highplains desert area like mine. [ Reply to this comment | |
| Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Apr 8, 2020 9:17 AM The Golden Vicary Privet was a hot item in the 1960's to the 1990's with its yellow foliage. However, that bright yellow foliage turns yellowish-green when summer's heat arrives and it gets more yellow again during cooler autumn temperatures. I've always considered it as one of those cheap, junk plants that nurseries still sell to the gardening public that has not been trained to appreciate higher quality plants. I still see it occasionally in homeowner yards in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, ugh!. Back in the 1970's into 90's, I noticed that in the Chicago area of USDA Zone 5a, Vicary Privet often suffered from winter damage or even died, having border-line cold hardiness there. Breeders have found two slightly more cold hardy cultivars of 'Storzinger Strain' and 'Hillside' that really work in Zone 5a, and the former cultivar is good to Zone 4. Vicary Priver originated in the garden of Vicary Gibbs in Middlesex, England before 1920. This hybrid is a cross between the European Privet (l. vulgaris) x the Golden California Privet (L. ovalifolium 'Aureum'). [ Reply to this comment | |
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