Sunshine Ligustrum
Ligustrum sinense ‘Sunshine’ PP20379
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-10b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub
Height at Maturity: 3-4′
Width at Maturity: 3-4′
Spacing: 1-3′ for solid hedges; 6’+ for space between plants with no pruning
Flower Color: None, Sterile
Flower Size: NA
Flowering Period: NA
Flower Type: NA
Fragrant Flowers: NA
Foliage Color: Screaming Yellow in full sun! Light Lime Green in shade. Orange-Bronze in Winter
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Full Sun to Part Shade
Water Needs: Average, Low when established
Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist
Soil pH: 6.0 – 8.0 (Moderately Acid to Slightly Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Low to Average if grown as clipped hedge
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer – more info, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity, Insect
Description
Sunshine Ligustrum is a dwarf privet that sports screaming yellow foliage you can spot from an airplane at 10,000 feet! Foliage turns a handsome orange-bronze in winter. Without pruning the plant grows to about 3 to 4 feet tall and wide. That said, with pruning, it can be kept to as low as 1 foot in height and width. If you’re looking to add some eye-popping color to your landscape look no further – Sunshine Ligustrum is your choice!
Note: Sunshine Ligustrum is a sterile hybrid that will not re-seed into other areas of the garden as some other privet are known to do.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 1 to 4 feet tall and wide (depending on pruning), Sunshine Ligustrum is ideal for use as a specimen or low clipped hedge in smaller landscape spaces. In larger landscape spaces plant it in small to large groupings for eye-popping splashes of vibrant color, as an underplanting for small trees such as Crape Myrtle and upright Japanese maples, as a low natural or formal hedge, or as a border to line paths and walkways. Can be sheared to globes, squares, domes and other interesting geometrical shapes. A fine addition to formal gardens, knot gardens and yellow theme gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 1 to 3 feet apart for solid hedges; 5 feet or more apart for space between plants
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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Ligustrum variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
Sunshine Ligustrum is easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. The brightest foliage color is achieved with 7 or more hours of direct sun light per day. Shade produces chartreuse to lime green foliage color. Pruning is not necessary unless a tight formal shape or hedge is desired.
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts for how to plant and care for Ligustrum and Privet shrubs.
How To Plant Ligustrum & Privet Plants
How To Fertilize Ligustrum And Privet Plants
How To Prune Ligustrum And Privet
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The December frost killed one of these plants in a border leaving a gap. Was able to find it at Wilson Bros. easily.———————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy your purchase for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and wonderful review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
These are absolutely perfect! As always with Wilson Bros, they arrived in perfect condition and were just as described. I couldn’t be happier.——————————————–Thanks for the kind words and awesome review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I didn’t expect nearly what i received both in size, quality of the plant, gorgeous color which i sort of anticipated, but a beautiful leaf that lit up the entire corner i put it in.——————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
These are three nice size great bushes and have been growing good and looking nice and yellow since planted in early spring.
Great Delivery came well packaged.—————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Great Delivery came well packaged.—————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Very good so far, can’t wait until it gets larger; planing on purchasing more to create a beautiful hedge down my drive entrance possibly under my Texas Mountain laurel trees.—————————————We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
Out of the many, many plants I ordered from Wilson Bros these are my favorites! They arrived in great condition and add nice vibrancy to my front garden.————————————————We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the kind words and great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
This is the first time I have ordered from Wilson Bros and it was a great experience. The plant was the best I have ever received and was shipped very promptly and packaged very well.—————————–Thanks for the great review! We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG 🙂
Product arrived in great shape! Packaging was well designed for the product. Plants are really healthy.—————————-We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG
Numerous emails were sent to Wilson Bros. Gardeners asking advice for suggestions for what plant would be best suited in a yard area, Pictures were forwarded of the area. Brent, owner, always responded very quickly with suggestions of what best plants to use and letting me know that a considered plant would not be suitable. Two gallon Sunshine Ligustrum plants were delivered in short order and were beautiful and in wonderful condition. Wilson Brothers Gardeners are the BEST with exceptional customer service!————————————-WBG Reply: Hi Arolue, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Sunshine Ligustrum. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words!
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens
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