Wax Leaf Privet is a upright deciduous, occasionally semi-evergreen, shrub blooms creamy-white, fragrant flowers followed by round blue-black fruit. Its dark green and bright green glossy foliage has larger leaves compared to the Sinense. This fast grower will reach 8-10 feet high. These have dense and bushy characteristics make it ideal for a privacy screen, wind screen, hedging, and small tree, while adding great color to your garden. This low-maintenance evergreen needs a regular water schedule to ensure the growth of a mature root system. After the mature root system of the ligustrum is established, watering is needed occasionally, except during a drought, watering is needed regularly. Responds well to pruning. Shearing is recommended 2-3 per year to maintain desired shape. Mulching is recommended to detour weeds, retain moisture, and keep temperatures low. The wax leaf privet has a compact growth habit with glossy foliage responds well to pruning into topiary or small standard trees. Displays a profusion of white blooms. Useful hedge, screen or windbreak. Ligustrum performs well in containers and as a topiary specimen. Evergreen. Because of the waxleaf privets versatility and undemanding nature, they are used extensively in home landscapes. Plant them as hedges, foundation plants, patio trees or in shrub borders. Wax Leaf privet ligustrum shrubs are grown primarily for the dense foliage they can provide when pruned into hedges. That dense foliage of the ligustrum, along with their height, means that they afford good privacy during the summertime when folks are most active in their backyards.