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Here's my little privet last October. I wired it at the end of the summer and in only a few weeks the
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wire cut in. It seemed like literally overnight it went from being fine to cutting in quite deep
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but apart from that it grew really well after its July defoliation. Here it is in January looking
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miserable. If you've seen any of my other privet videos you'll know this year they all seem to turn
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deciduous for some reason. As of most of my trees I give it a good hard prune in winter. If you
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remember from the last video on this tree I defoliated and pruned it back in July. So the
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fact that we will do it again this winter just shows how fast privet can grow. I'd gotten rid
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of most of the problem branches last summer. This is mostly just a trim back. It was really only the
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one branch that had to be totally removed. There was too many branches in the one place
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I also knocked all the leaves off as it's pretty pointless keeping them on. The wire damage is pretty noticeable but I think by the end of this year it
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should have healed over quite a lot actually. Here are some leaves I cut off compared to a healthy green leaf from a private hedge in a garden
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Again I'm not sure why the tree went this edges. I brought the tree back inside at the end of February and very quickly it started to bud out
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again So it was time to repot As you can see the roots had filled the pot It a fast growing tree in a small little pot so it probably going to need to be re every year
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I love seeing a block of healthy roots like this. You can see the buds are starting to open so it's the perfect time to re-pot
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Although the root ball is pretty solid and definitely needs repotted, it's not super
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compact, it's pretty easy to tease everything out. After washing you can see it has a nice little root ball
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it's already quite flat and radial. I've been working on it for the last few years and it's slowly coming together
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I trimmed it back pretty hard a privet can handle that quite easily And that is the only way you going to get a decent root spread You just have to repeat this process for years and years
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So I put it back up in the same little bit apart and give it a good wiring
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And here it is after, nothing special, but I like it a lot
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I think it's coming along quite nicely. By April it was looking very healthy, shot out and was doing well
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And by May it had grown like crazy
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Apart from that branch that was dead oh well All the shoots had already taken off definitely time for its first pruning of the season
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I pretty much took everything back to the second set of leaves. Thank you
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So it's back looking nice and compact
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Here it is in June, it's growing like crazy again. I could prune it again now but I'm going to leave it
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I'll give it a few more weeks and then take a look at it. I'm also loving how green the leaves are compared to how they look in the winter
