Ligustrum sinense 'Sunshine'

In this video I talk about Ligustrum sinense 'Sunshine'. It is a variegated evergreen shrub that can be kept any size. It makes a bright pop of color in any garden
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[@jengsaquatics689]

Zone 8b, I planted these in full sun in a 100 foot strip between my neighbors and I 3 years ago. Combined sunshine ligustrum, hetzii columnar juniper and purple daydream loropetalum in a zigzag planted formation. First year I had issues with the tops of the ligustrum leaves having brown spots. Second year those leaves never came back and was left with dead twigs. Trimmed those out and they look much better. Not getting any upward growth on them but they are quite dense and bushy. The yellow during the summer pops against the green and purple.

[@stephaniejohnson2937]

Sunshine ligustrum!! Beautiful plant…I think that gold in your garden is an absolute necessity!!!

[@mimimd9652]

You give just the right amount of info + you show pictures on what it'll look like when mature. I have a terrible time judging what the mature size of my plants will be, so your pictures are extremely helpful! Thank you!

[@kaylac3367]

I really like this new channel! You can give us a lot more information about each plant. Pros, Cons, experiences... All the pictures are very helpful as well. This is really nice!

[@paulagarcia8297]

Love this plant, NOW. Being a South Texas native, I've seen many plants that are yellow because they're sick so I've typically been turned off by yellow foliage plants. I've had a change of heart and incorporate it and all other colored foliage now into my yarden space. ♥

[@kaychaney6102]

Jim I’ve watched this video multiple times. I bought the plant and kept it in a pot for about 15 months. Loved it. Recently put it in the ground and still love it! I’m watching yet again because we all need something refreshing to see. Thank you!

[@wendy6710]

💘Love plant-specific videos and love your new channel!

[@marct2168]

I love these. Have quite a few because of your videos. Thanks Jim.

[@audramoore8679]

Love this channel! It'll be easy to search for information.

[@amandalytz4489]

This plant looks good with the purple contrast. Thanks for the info!

[@bmcdonald7303]

Great video and informative as usual. I appreciate all you and Steph do.

[@larryhibbert2480]

Added this because you gave me information that was helpful to make it an addition to my yard.

[@mbehymer9229]

Beautiful plant! I'm excited to see all the things that will be on this new channel!

[@jenniferblevins5023]

Love these chartuese foliage plants!

[@thepurplegardener4856]

I’m loving this channel 👌🏽 we gardeners need this information on beautiful plants! Great channel 👍🏽

[@mathological3540]

Ok. Now I've got to get one. Great info all around.

[@sandysimpson878]

Have these and love them! Such a great color and so low maintence

[@lulubell711]

I like videos that detail individual plants. it's very helpful.

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Beautiful shaped shrub and that golden colour is just stunning especially this time of year, Thank You Jim

[@susanmyer1]

Beautiful!!

[@cynthiacisneros1694]

Oh, the color❣️

[@andrewjbernius]

I have 3 of these - each one in a different sun exposure and all doing equally well. Great care-free plant.

[@cynthiabercaw3462]

YAY a new channel!!!!!

[@dianesanders2591]

Your pruning instructions are invaluable to me with my 3yr old total landscape of trees and shrubs. Thx

[@susanbaker2796]

I am going to attempt one these as a potted plant for a showy spot of color this year on my patio.

[@thogue5]

Love your content keep it up. I'm landscaping my yard using many of your suggestions:-)

[@sherryj2]

I am one of the ones that have loved it in the background of your Q&As. I am on the lookout now for one and then have to figure out where I want it in my yard! Love these videos!

[@judybingham2333]

Another very informative video. I'm enjoying your new channel.

[@sweetdudeword]

I battled with an older variety of Chinese privette, but this one is gorgeous! I love the idea of planting it by itself and training it into a pyramid.

[@kbea]

Great info!

[@debbiesampath1179]

Watched an area in my front yard that faces east and found it gets 6 hrs of sun so I just added 5 of these shrubs!!! So excited I was able to find a spot for them in my landscape! I have been admiring them for the past 2-3 yrs. Great video!

[@bstlaur4567]

I have a few. I love them all year

[@heaventoearthllc]

Thanks for explaining about the height versus what the tags say. That will definitely alter where I put it!

[@jessicarichardson5126]

I’ve added four of these to my landscape in the last year, with one in more shade than the other three. They’re all doing well. Looking forward to new growth.

[@fattyslim96]

Your love of these sunshine ligustrum has helped me to convince my lovely wife to add this goldy to our landscape this season… now to figure out where it goes! We’ll likely be trying to find a consultation window with you soon!

[@32speedygonzales]

I think your idea with our new channel is awesome.

[@MattMurrah]

I have 3 of these in my DFW Texas garden. They have been very slow-growing for their first year, so I'm hoping they'll jump into action this spring.

[@emilyjabrawn9703]

I absolutely LOVE the color of this plant! I have a huge backyard, but the problem is it's all in full sun, and I have a huge slope. I've started putting in plants, but I like the look where you can't see much mulch in between all the plants. My current plants aren't getting very big yet.

[@npsinboro]

My ground planted sunshines look great even now in Winter here in central NC. My potted versions who don’t get special care have bronzed and thinned out much more due to dry conditions I wager. Even in the amber/bronze color it’s pretty and with some rain I think they’ll bounce back fine.

[@beverya.mcclure7770]

I have bought 4 after you revised Sunshine Ligustrum. Thanks for all the details at end of presentation. Very helpful. Am reconfiguring a corner of my zone 8 backyard, would love a consultant with you for hardscape and plants. Thanks

[@jmcaulay577]

Good luck with the new channel. I can’t wait to start learning about plants I can put in my yard. Please focus on 7b as it’s so helpful.

[@jordynekrumroy1738]

Agree. Stick to 7b!

[@zeroibis]

Interesting to hear that the gold color can shift around during different times of the year as the exposure changes. This could allow you to create some neat effects if under planting some trees that do not hold leaves. You they would brighten up and present a very different border due to the enhanced exposure that time of year.

[@CB-sr8ee]

Beauty!

[@williamhollar7546]

I planted one this year, and hope to shape it into fairly tight pyramids shape. Will hope to have other geometric shapes as well.

[@rodneybosco7376]

This new channel is just what I am looking for. Could you possibly add to your stats list average growth per year? I know you frequently say it in your videos but it would help to have that in the stats sheet. Thanks!

[@LULC0759]

Glad to see it is a Z 6. I need privacy shrubs for our acreage. Our lot is narrow but deep. I’d love to see more in Viburnums.❤️

[@stephanycoakley7352]

Me too! Love viburnums!

[@karencrawford5062]

Loving this new channel. I like that it is specific to one plant at a time with all the detail. Makes it easy to search and save. Of course your other channel is one of my go to as well. I’ve learned so much! Was wondering how this plant might work as a small tree form?

[@stephanycoakley7352]

We have seen them done. Most recently in containers in Louisiana. They were lovely

[@lisajelle714]

Glad to hear this is hardy in zone 6- my zone! You might want to adjust the you-tube subheading on this video, as it currently says “27,128 views, 2Y ago, Zone 8 Foundation plant”. A bit confusing.

[@janiefunk5144]

I love mine! Learned about them from you. Unfortunately, I over fertilized one of mine and it looks pretty bad. I hope it recovers.

[@graylagran7443]

I just planted one this fall - and it's wee sized -- teeny! So I look forward to it growing up, and wondering now if it might out perform my newly planted Forest Pansy Redbud 😳

[@lornalorna4026]

Hi there, would be great to see a focus on fast growing shrubs to complement sunshine ligustrum of similar size in a border that is in sun to part shade. 🙂

[@janiefunk5144]

Look into lorepetalum. He's talked about that combo quite a lot. They look beautiful together.

[@stephanycoakley7352]

Along with loropetalum, contrast with a large leafed holly or other rich green color. So many opportunities ❤

[@johnearls7608]

Love this plant and video! PCSing to Fort Bragg, NC in summer. Would love any help you can give a North-easterner on your native North Carolina!

[@chrismarchetti-olson6632]

How do I grow this in zone 5?????? I absolutely love it!!!!

[@jennifernash4638]

Mine really struggled last year - I believe because we were so wet last winter and it was fall planted. It's really starting to fill out now, though, and I hope to see some really good growth come spring!

[@dannykevin1508]

How was struggling? Mine I just plant like a month ago and two of them already turning yellow leaves but they are falling everywhere

[@jennifernash4638]

@@dannykevin1508 Mine lost a lot of leaves that first year and looked pretty sad but it looks great now with another year of growth.

[@chriscoogan2736]

Interesting point regarding using one as a stand alone plant against other types. Do they tolerate wet feet?

[@Mike_Genisys]

I put Little Ruby Alternanthera infront of it, and then a hibiscus behind it.

[@donnaallen2207]

Hello, thank you for all the information you provide everyone. I've learned a lot from your channel. I'm hoping you could tell me if I need to do anything with my sunshine ligustrum bushes this winter? We planted them this past July or August. I'm in zone 7. Thanks so very much.

[@stephanycoakley7352]

We fertilize in late winter but that’s all. Sometimes the do drop leaves in the winter. This year ours did, but came back better and fuller!

[@SheriShea1]

Thank you so much for skipping all the fluff and get right to the plant stuff!

[@andreturnerphotography]

I have a young landscape with a lot of full sun areas (8a). I have young trees, so not much shade/filtered shade yet, so I am always looking for sun/heat tolerant and showy plants. Thanks.

[@itsallaboutlight]

How many takes did it take you not to say "Welcome to HortTube"? Lol Nice channel!

[@TwelveFeetTravels]

I actually prefer this planted in part shade, where it is more lime green than gold!!!

[@hitfoods1726]

I love these but wow i lost pretty much all the leaves slowly over the winter and now in May, and still have many bare ones.

[@laura324n]

Same! and really hoping they come back

[@pamelacorsi]

You should move all of your old single plant videos to this channel. I often search your old videos when buying a new shrub!

[@amyp8833]

I have six of these that have been planted about three years. (Raleigh, NC) Last spring, we got brilliant yellow growth, that fell off after a month or so, making us scratch our heads as to why they dropped leaves in the spring, making the shrubs quite bare. We thought perhaps they were dying for some unknown reason. However, within another month or so, the shrubs had flushed back out with new leaves. I am just waiting to see if the process repeats itself this spring.

[@laura324n]

All three of my newly planted last May ligustrums have dropped their leaves in the past couple of weeks. Should I prune any stems or branches? or just wait and see?

[@amyp8833]

@@laura324n I didn't prune them at all last year and got a new flush of leaves later toward early summer. I've never experienced this with a plant where it leafs out once, then again later in the year. Whatever the case, the sunshine ligustrum shrubs are doing the same thing again this year. It's May and they're not pretty at all. But they do eventually leaf out again. We are thinking of removing them.

[@tshockmom69]

Will pruning these harm them? I pruned mine last fall and lost my lime foliage. It is more yellow brown now. Will they lime back up?

[@dump706]

how far apart do I need to plant each bush (5 bushes) for them to grow together in a line like that?

[@SEEKINGPUSHEDUPDAISIES]

In zone 6b my late summer planting of sunshine ligustrum leaves looks to be dead. Will it bounce back or is it already dead?

[@rejeanorscott1555]

Enjoy these individual plant videos.

[@mjyumping]

Can I plant this in Winter?

[@user-bk4mp2eu6e]

How deep do the roots grow?

[@lionessfoodie1640]

Mine is drying from the tip of the leaves and then the entire leaf and falls off, why is that? I am trying to trouble shoot it. Hope you can help, thank you

[@orrinrobbins2644]

Can't wait for you to add more plants, maybe acanthus?

[@jordynekrumroy1738]

Yes! Please do one on acanthus!

[@silvering14]

A sterile privet, maybe I can add one after all! I do have a full sun location that could use an evergreen focal point. 🤔

[@kelleybennett1196]

My sunshines are looking very orange/red right now in zone 7b. Is this normal?

[@mariebarnes416]

I have four of these plants in my landscape but they're not as full as yours.

[@shervegas]

I like the vibrant color! How fast can I get it to grow? I would use it as a hedge its beautiful.

[@stephanycoakley7352]

They are pretty fast growers

[@beckysgardening9937]

I planted 2 last year and one is just about dead. Not sure what is going on. Almost all leaves have fallen off!

[@dannykevin1508]

I just plant mine 2 months ago and is dying :( leaves getting yellow and falling everywhere

[@carolburnett8372]

I have bought these two times....and each time they stay green....no mater where I put them....my neighbor has them and they are yellow very bright lemon yellow.........I get so aggravated with them.........I tried to take them back, but lost my receipt..........is there any liquid I can put in the ground to change their chemical structure so they will be yellow..........I want the lemon yellow so very bad, I have green things everywhere, but NO lemon yellow..............what can I do........please reply if possible and if you cannot reply , then please answer me some reader that has solved this problem........thanks ahead of time.....

[@dorindajenkins7825]

👋😃

[@rachelknight9047]

I’m in zone 5b. Is there something similar to this that would work for my zone or if I tried it could it work if it was somewhere more protected?

[@stephanycoakley7352]

You could certainly try. It would likely lose its leaves, but likely flush back out, as expected. Make be more die back, as well

[@lindas3832]

Can you tell us how, when to trim these back?

[@stephanycoakley7352]

As needed late summer to early/mid summer.

[@jcrane45585]

I hate these. This is the only plant that I disagree with you about. I cut down several when I bought my house

[@Soul_N_Control]

They get big

[@lindavan5330]

Love the channel but sorry to say, not a fan of this plant.