I spied this privet a couple of years ago on a vacant block of land around the corner from my place, but it was surrounded by massive rocks and other junk so I patiently waited...and waited.
Today the block was finally being leveled and the workers with their heavy machinery made my life a lot easier. They destroyed a ripper comprosma that I wanted to get
, but I can't complain as they hauled out the privet I had been eyeing off for a while. I explained the situation and they said "she's all yours mate!".
I raced home and grabbed my tools but in my haste I forgot the camera.
It was around 2.5 metres tall, and 2 or so metres wide with stacks of sub trunks forming a messy bush.I quickly trimmed back the upper growth, and flat cut the base with a hand saw
(I really need to get a reciprocating saw because it took ages to cut through and I sure was stuffed afterwards), took it home to hose it down and clean it up properly. Unfortunately the machinery that the workers dug it out with damaged some of the sub-trunks, splitting them and tearing the bark off in areas.
Sorry...3 out of 4 pics are blurry
After these pics were taken I cut it back a fair way but left some room for die back etc.
It was dark outside by the time I finished so I couldn't take any more pics...I will post some tomorrow.
By the way, do privet take from root cuttings, or do you need to graft foliage on first?
I hope they do because I kept a couple just in case.
Cheers, Dario.
Im with Mojo on these species 
) ...yeah bodhi I have been looking for a nice comprosma stump to work for a while now, and even though I had been past this block of land many times over the last couple of years I never saw the comprosma as it was the only one and it was hidden in a corner behind some shrubs. Oh well I should of grabbed it last week but I wanted to ask the workers first.
