Ligustrum?

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So I bought a nice size about 8 ft Ligustrum today on clearance at lowes. It was only like 20 bucks and I thought it was a good deal at the time. But I didn't know what it was when I bought it I thought it would be a large shrub big tree and the guy said it smelled good. So high on the smell of my tea olive I bought it only to bring it home and find nothing good about it on the internet. Anybody got any experiences with it? I already have a treed lot and don't need any large trees I was really hoping for a bush/shrub when I bought it.
 

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Ligustrum is a small tree when left to it's natural growth, usually 12 feet or so but it is easily sheared or pruned to any size. I never found the smell of the blossoms very attractive but the bees seem to like it.
It can be used as a hedge plant or shaped into a topiary in any shape you wish. I've seen it as a globe, heart shaped and I once trained one with two bare trunks for legs and shaped like a wading bird about 6 feet high. I finally got talked into selling it to a landscape company.
 

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I grew up in Fla and they were one of the most frequent landscaping shrubs. I liked it and it makes pretty flowers, with a light scent.
It does become a small tree if you let it and I have climbed old ones when I needed to get on the roof. It was probably 15 feet tall, but had been growing half of forever. They can be trimmed pretty easily and grew fast.
 

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lesa said:
Hoodat, please tell me you have a picture of your "bird"???
I think I used to have one but I have no idea where it is. That was around 30 years ago when I still had my plant nursery.
Come to think of it I mis spoke. It was eugenia I made that bird out of but it could just as easily have been done with ligustrum.
 

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