Plant database

Privet

Water below

34%

Healthy band 40% to 75%

Needs wateringJust watered

Water a young hedge to establish it. Once settled privet is tough and needs watering only in drought.

Once established this plant rarely needs watering. Alerts are worth acting on mainly in a long dry spell or in its first year.

A vigorous, easy hedging shrub, semi evergreen and quick to make a dense screen.