| Description | Golden Vicary Privet (Ligustrum) is a shrub yellow foliage shrub that holds onto the yellow color the entire season. |
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| Pronunciation | (li-GUS-trum) |
| Plant Type | Shrubs Deciduous, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 5-8 |
| Sunlight | full, tolerates shade but foliage color suffers |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | white, very fragrant, many times are not seen because the flower buds are cut off when pruning the shrub into a hedge |
| Fruit | dark, somewhat persistent, berry-like drupe |
| Leaves | golden yellow |
| Dimensions | can reach 10-12 feet but easily kept to size by heavy pruning, remain smaller in colder climates |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Cultivar Origin | Originated in the garden of Vicary Gibbs, England prior to 1920. |
| Misc Facts | AKA: Golden Privet, Vicary Privet |
| Author's Notes | I live in zone #5 and many years ago I considered this a marginal hardy plant. It always died back hard each year. Now we have warmed up 1/2 zone and the plant gets larger because of less winter kill. |
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