Apr 192014
At last, after numerous attempts and almost as an afterthought, I managed to capture a privet blossom today along Piney Woods Church Road. The flowers are simple yet almost elegant. Like wisteria, I think they are more attractive solitary than in the clusters where they are typically found (in the case of privet, perhaps four or five blooms all crammed together on a stem). Perhaps that is because both plants are so highly invasive. All the privet flowers (happily visited by buzzing bumblebees on sunny days) will become privet seeds, and privet’s conquest of the Georgia Piedmont will continue.
