Add elegant year-round interest to your outdoor space with Ligustrum Argenteum, a striking variegated privet valued for its glossy green leaves edged with attractive creamy-white margins. This versatile shrub creates a bright and refined display throughout the seasons, bringing colour and structure to garden borders, boundaries, and planting schemes.
Fast-growing, hardy, and easy to maintain, Ligustrum Argenteum is an excellent choice for creating dense hedges, privacy screens, and decorative shrub planting. During summer, mature plants may produce clusters of small fragrant white flowers, providing an additional benefit for bees and other pollinators.
Suitable for both formal and informal garden designs, this adaptable shrub performs well in full sun or partial shade and establishes reliably in a wide range of garden conditions. Supplied as a healthy 2 litre pot plant, ready to plant and grow.
As a natural living product, each plant may vary slightly in size, shape, and appearance depending on seasonal growing conditions.
Plant Details
- Botanical Name: Ligustrum japonicum 'Argenteum'
- Common Name: Silver Variegated Privet
- Plant Type: Semi-Evergreen Hedging Shrub
- Pot Size: 2 Litre
- Flower Colour: White
- Foliage Colour: Green with Silver-Cream Margins
- Position: Full Sun to Partial Shade
- Growth Habit: Upright, Bushy
- Mature Height: Approx. 2–3m
- Mature Spread: Approx. 1.5–2m
- Flowering Period: Summer
- Suitable For: Hedges, Screening, Borders, Privacy Planting and Feature Shrub Displays
Care
Plant in fertile, well-drained soil and water regularly until established. Position in full sun or partial shade for healthy growth and strong foliage colour. Trim once or twice yearly to maintain a neat hedge shape and apply a balanced feed in spring to encourage vigorous growth.
