A familiar feature of towns villages and countryside all over the uk the privet hedge is one of britain39s favourites33 and for good reason too it is fast45growing easy to trim and maintain and it lasts many years it grows in sun or deep shade and makes a neat and tidy hedge it is rarely troubled by pests or disease ligustrum ovalifolium produces clusters of white flowers but if the hedge is trimmed regularly these are unlikely to form supplied as 604590cm 402445313