privet hedge

Living green fence

A privet hedge is a dense boundary planting of privet shrubs, commonly used to mark property lines or create privacy screens.

Privet's fast growth and tolerance for heavy pruning make it ideal for formal hedging: The privet hedge hadn't been trimmed in years and was starting to look wild.

The term often evokes suburban domesticity and tidy garden boundaries.

Opposites
boundary type/material

privet hedgewooden fence

Plank barrier around property

chain-link fence · stone wall · brick wall · metal fence · concrete wall

openness/enclosure

privet hedgeopen ground

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G