If you are experiencing these symptoms, it is a sign that the soil is not well-suited to your shrubs. Privets (and many other shrubs) like well-amended, acidic soils. Once planted, it is difficult ...

Several of these species, especially privets, are known to aggressively overpopulate native plants in the area.

Privets are notorious for looking bad, leaf drop and twig dieback, when they are not watered frequently enough or not given enough water.

Privets are broad-leaf evergreens most often used as upright, boxwood-like hedges. The four types being added to the noxious-weeds list are the Chinese, European, Japanese, and border privets.

Dear Dr. Dirt: There are golden privets on the west side of my home. They didn’t bloom/grow this spring. I’ve noticed other golden privets around town looking the same way.

Glossy privets are also known as Ligustrum lucidum. Tyllick said the other invasive species taking over Walnut Creek Park is known as the Ligustrum Quihoui.