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Bonsai Shaping of Common Privet

This common privet was my first Bonsai. I started caring for and shaping back in 2005, it was already several years old at that time, estimating age to be 25yrs old. Common privet was an early introduction into the United States, probably coming here with early English settlers in the 17th century. Plants were low branched and, if let unpruned, could reach more than 10 feet tall and wide, but annual pruning could keep them at more manageable sizes. Common privet was afflicted by a stem blight that would occasionally kill patches in the hedge – a disease known even in Moore’s day – and it lost most of its leaves in the winter. Even with these flaws, common privet remained the most popular large shrub for hedging until the early part of the 20th century. For starters this is one of the best Bonsai Trees to start with!