"This is the best time for planting," the highly-commissioned salesman at the well-endowed nursery asserted to the two customers who had just driven in from Highway 79.
They were in the market for some big shade trees, and this was obviously the right place to look. The most interesting species discovered today was the Privet, it appealed to the northern boys with its broad leaves and bushy appearance with a proper study trunk. The way a tree is supposed to be, not all frondish, or palmy or spindly like so many of the native desert-hardy trees.Isn't a Privet a shrub for a hedge, (hence privacy) but these were big bushy, dramatic trees, not at all shrubby. Who knew?
It may well be the best time for planting a tree, but there were so many choices, so much to consider. In the meantime, we'll look up that Privet tree.
Wikipedia says:A privet is a flowering plant in the genus Ligustrum. The genus contains about 50 species of erect, deciduous or evergreen shrubs, sometimes forming small or medium-sized trees, native to Europe, north
Africa, Asia and Australasia. Privet was originally the name for the European semi-evergreen shrub Ligustrum vulgare, and later also for the more reliably evergreen Ligustrum ovalifolium used extensively for privacy hedging, though now the name is applied to all members of the genus. It is often suggested that the name privet is related to private, but the OED states that there is no evidence to support this.