{"id":52593,"date":"2026-06-16T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=52593"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:34:03","slug":"yard-work-gardening-hedge-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-gardening-hedge-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard work, gardening: hedge identification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about common yard bushes: the tutor mentions privet.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nOff and on for about twenty years I&#8217;ve wondered the species of the hedge on the east side. Some years it was pretty thin in places, but now it&#8217;s hard to see through, and taller than I am. Yet, what is it?<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve researched said bush a few times by description, but never narrowed it down to an answer. However, yesterday I noticed something that seems to have made a difference.<\/p>\n<p>\nI was mowing the lawn yesterday, so went past the hedge. I noticed how many bees were there to visit its white flowers. It produces a lot of those white flowers, but they are quite small, so not very showy. Nonetheless, the bees seem to love them.<\/p>\n<p>\nToday I added that bees love the bush&#8217;s white flowers to my research description, and an answer came back that I believe to be the right one: privet.<\/p>\n<p>\nI guess there are dozens of kinds of privet and generally it grows pretty easily. It&#8217;s from the olive family, which makes sense to me based on its branches and leaves.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardendesign.com\/shrubs\/privet.html\">gardendesign.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about common yard bushes: the tutor mentions privet. The following is according to my understanding. Off and on for about twenty years I&#8217;ve wondered the species of the hedge on the east side. Some years it was pretty thin &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-gardening-hedge-identification\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yard work, gardening: hedge identification<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1218],"tags":[4296,4298,4295,4294],"class_list":["post-52593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yard-work","tag-bush-identification","tag-common-yard-plants-bushes-and-trees","tag-hedge","tag-privet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52593"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52600,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52593\/revisions\/52600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}