How To Use Privet In A Sentence
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Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of the privet.
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The front garden includes an evergreen magnolia, topiary spirals in pots, standard privets as well as hardy plantings in terracotta pots.
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For favorite evergreen shrubs that can be espaliered, Garland Nursery's Karen Hobson lists the following: waxleaf privet (Ligustrum texanum), cotoneaster parneyi, euonymous japonica (many varieties), loropetalum, ceanothus, and photinia.
Undefined
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Much softer than the privet, which is so hard it should be used to build houses.
Killer-The Final Chapter? « Fairegarden
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The overstory and understory are dominated by hackberry and privet, respectively.
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Of course, by now he's across, safe and sound, rolling up the rise to park beside the stand of privet.
AUGUST HEAT
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Chinese privet is most abundant along margins of gravel and paved roads, where it often forms dense, impenetrable stands with relatively dark understories.
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Other seasonal berries include ilex winterberry, privet and, yes, holly.
Side-Table Sparkle
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Plants such as privet or barberry need severe pruning immediately after planting and at the beginning of the second year to make them bushy.
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Miss Privett said he had achieved a considerable amount during his career and listed a string of credits which St Leonards had gained under his headship.
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The planting included oak, ash, crab apple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, privet and dogwood and down by the ponds two areas of willows were planted.
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The winds have picked up a bit, swirling the sour smell of privet blossoms around me, bringing on another bout of sneezing.
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The front garden, behind the privet, was clipped to within an inch of its life, with a single standard rose in the dead centre.
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The front garden, behind the privet, was clipped to within an inch of its life, with a single standard rose in the dead centre.
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Cut leafless stems of rose, abelia, bridal wreath, privet and other plants into 8-to - 10-inch lengths and set them directly in the propagation bed or container.
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Of interest too are the ‘hot spots’ of occurrence indicated by the darkest shade, especially in the distributions of Chinese privet, multiflora rose, and kudzu.
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Large expanses of privet need a longer blade, and the extra cost will be offset by the time saved.
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Of the 18 species surveyed in this study, Microstegium, Japanese honeysuckle, Chinese privet, kudzu, and multiflora rose are among the most problematic invasive species on the Research Park and its component management areas.
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Is it a fad, or an unscrupulous plot against favorite exotic ornamentals like privet or barberry, or perhaps a revelation borne from scrutinizing eyes on the workings of our natural world?
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A boffin has invented a car that runs on grass, or pigeon poo, or privet cuttings.
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He thought he saw a shadow move beneath the privet, but put it down to his paranoia and drew in a sharp breath.
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The planting included oak, ash, crab-apple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, privet and dogwood and down by the ponds in River Field two areas of willows were planted.
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Instead of a privet hedge, why not train apple trees to clothe a lattice?
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It is known to botanists by the name Lawsonia alba or inermis, a kind of privet, which grows 6 or 8 feet high.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Mitotic inhibitors were used on seed or meristem material to produce tetraploid plants or sectors of plants of selected clones of amur maple, Norway maple, mimosa, trumpet vine, tutsan St. Johnswort, goldenraintree, privet, callery pear, and lacebark elm.
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Yaupon and privet together constitute 86-96% of total fruit eaten by Hermit Thrushes at our study sites.
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The earth was fuller of color than in the painted spring; the hedgerows were hung with brilliant berries in wreaths and clusters, luminous briony and honeysuckle, and the ebony gloss of the privet making more vivid the bright red of the hips and the dark red of the haws.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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I gather Olgrumpyfy may be "affiliated" to other local and web voces populi such as Privett and paddington.
Do the Tories only say what they really think when they think nobody can hear them ?
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We could climb over the low-growing hedges of lavender or box or rosemary, but every time he ducked under one of the high, clipped hedges planted in privet or briar or whitethorn, we had to go around.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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The sides of the bowl are defined with pleached linden trees and parterres of golden privet, santolina, althernanthera, Korean boxwood and red-leaf Japanese barberry with begonias, lantanas, fucshia and cone-shaped yew topiary.
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Suburban, he thought, those houses and their clipped privet hedges, but home to a lot of people who wouldn't think as he did.
LOHENGRIN
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Instead of a privet hedge, why not train apple trees to clothe a lattice?
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I wandered beside hedges of privet and whitethorn and between banks of rosemary and borders of lavender, inhaling their warm scents.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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Chinese privet is present in eight of the 16 management areas surveyed.
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There is parking in the communal gardens, which has a curving driveway, mature trees and shrubs, all bordered by a privet hedge.
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And every so often, despised water descended from the sky, flooding the hollows under the privet where he preferred to lie before an owl swooped from nowhere one night and carried him away.
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The lush, wild growth of holly, privet, hawthorn and multiflora rose hedge simulate a natural environment while providing excellent building sites, offering shelter and secluded perching and providing escape routes when necessary.
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Other seasonal berries include ilex winterberry, privet and, yes, holly.
Side-Table Sparkle
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IN THIS year Cynewulf and the councillors of the West Saxons deprived Sigeberht of his kingdom because of his unjust acts, except for Hampshire; and he retained that until he killed the ealdorman who stood by him longest; and then Cynewulf drove him into the Weald, and he lived there until a swineherd stabbed him to death by the stream at Privett, and he was avenging Ealdorman Cumbra.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
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It had been a lilac, possibly, or an ancient privet.
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Student activities from planting perennials to removing invasive plants such as privet and English ivy were under the direction of John Bodiford, senior horticulturalist at the garden.
Anderson Independent Mail Stories
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Invasive plants, such as privet, will be removed and a pervious walkway will be installed.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Plants such as privet or barberry need severe pruning immediately after planting and at the beginning of the second year to make them bushy.
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The solution to the high maintenence of the privet was a row of arborvitae behind and C. pisifera ‘Gold Mops’ in front of the large existing hedge.
Chamaecyparis « Fairegarden
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The school grounds, which are according to Eanna ‘excellent - great for safe exploring and very well planted’, served up a wonderful array of elderberries, blackberries, privet berries, haws, rose hips and rowan berries.
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She went out in calf-length dresses and big black rubber boots, pulling stalks of blue chickweeds and lamb's-quarters, hacking at a half-dead hedge of privet shrubs.
Still Life, With Girl
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When you plant a new hedge, prune vigorous shrubs, such as privet, by reducing the length of the branches and shrub height by one-fourth to one-third.
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It's a technique that can be applied not only to yew but also to beech, privet, holly, hornbeam and box.
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Few animals eat privet, which is one of the reasons the plant has been able to proliferate the South.
Local News from TimesDaily
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Raspberry, blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes had died, the privet hedge would soon be gone and vegetables wouldn't grow in the garden, only one of two affected.
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She went out in calf-length dresses and big black rubber boots, pulling stalks of blue chickweeds and lamb's-quarters, hacking at a half-dead hedge of privet shrubs.
Still Life, With Girl
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Commonly it is not so tall, is always well clipped and is so civil to strangers that one would wish to see its like on every street front, though he might prefer to find it not so invariably of the one sort of growth -- a small, handsome privet, that is, which nevertheless fulfils its office with the perfection of a solid line of palace sentries.
The Amateur Garden
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Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of the privet.
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The house was half concealed by elderberry and privet, a strand of bramble snaking on to the pavement.
THE OPEN DOOR
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Border Patrol spokeswoman Andrea Privette says the federal agents can work anywhere in public domain.
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On the morrow I opened the second door and found myself in a spacious plain set with tall date palms and watered by a running stream whose banks were shrubbed with rose and jasmine, while privet and eglantine, oxe-eye, violet and lily, narcissus, origane and the winter gilliflower carpeted the borders; and the breath of the breeze swept over those sweet-smelling growths ....
The Fortieth Door
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Border Patrol spokeswoman Andrea Privette says the federal agents can work anywhere in public domain.
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Whatever the "privet" CO. contract was in 2007 irrelevant once AIG was bailed out.
Propeller Most Popular Stories
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Behind is a garden about the size of a good drawing-room, with an arbour, which is a complete sentry-box of privet.
Our Village
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Foot long panicles of creamy blooms arrive in June with a scent that reminds me of privet.
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Border Patrol spokeswoman Andrea Privette says the federal agents can work anywhere in public domain.
