Though tall and beautiful and providing privacy, this landscaping hedge could wreak havoc on your home and the surrounding ecosystem. You're best to avoid it.

Privet has long been a popular hedging plant to provide a fast and dense screen. It is a quick-growing and versatile option for hedges, but one that needs regular pruning to keep it neat and looking ...

Is there anything more capable of adding a sense of elegance to your landscape, while nostalgically teleporting you to the fictional Manderley estate, than a beautiful dense hedge around your lawn?

In the Hamptons, where $15 million homes define exclusivity, money can only exclude so much. Then you need privet. The fine-textured, malleable hedge keeps the world at bay. It is the ubiquitous green ...

Q:We recently moved here from Illinois. Back there, we had a beautiful, dense privet hedge. I think they called it Northern Privet. Here we would like to plant a hedge around our deck and that privet ...