Sunshine Privet

Sunshine Privet

3 Gallon
$59.90
Skip to product information
Sunshine Privet
1/5

Sunshine Privet

Ligustrum sinensis 'Sunshine'

A sterile, sun-loving golden shrub for effortless, vibrant color without the mess.

$59.90
Container sizeSize guide

Quality Guarantee

Free Delivery Over $199

+1 650-241-8858 (SMS ok)

Local Plant Delivery

Delivered by our local network

Current Nursery Inventory

Availability reflects current sourcing

 Living Plants

Size, shape and branching naturally vary

Description

Brighten your landscape with a vibrant, carefree glow. Sunshine Privet redefines easy color with its dazzling chartreuse to golden-yellow foliage that maintains its hue without reverting to green. This compact, mounding shrub brings a burst of sunshine to mixed borders, containers, or low hedges, even holding a subtle orange tint in winter. A sterile, non-flowering variety, it eliminates the worry of self-seeding. Exceptionally resilient, it laughs at summer heat, drought, and poor soil, asking only for full sun to shine its brightest. It’s the ultimate low-maintenance, high-impact plant for modern, sunny gardens.

• Vibrant Foliage Color: Boasts brilliant golden-yellow, non-fading foliage that may develop warm orange hints in winter, providing multi-season interest.
• Sterile & Neat: A non-flowering/non-fruiting variety, ensuring no messy berries or unwanted seedlings, perfect for tidy landscapes.
• Exceptional Resilience: Thrives on neglect; highly tolerant of heat, drought, poor soil, and pestsonce established.
• Compact & Dense Habit: Naturally forms a neat, rounded mound of foliage, ideal for low hedges, borders, or mass plantings.
• Sun-Loving: Performs best and displays its most intense color in full sun (at least 6+ hours of direct light).
• Easy Care: Requires minimal pruning to maintain its shape and is virtually disease and pest-free.

Quick Facts

  • Features:Foliage: Small, oval, wavy-margined leaves in a bright, consistent golden-yellow to chartreuse color, often taking on orange hints in winter. Non-green foliage and flowerless.Habit: Evergreen shrub with a compact, dense, and rounded habit. Heat, drought, and poor soil tolerant. Thrives in full sun for best foliage color. Highly pest and disease resistant.
  • Mature Height: 3–6 ft
    Mature Width: 3–4 ft
  • Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
  • Light Needs: Full sun
  • Key Advantages:Vibrant, non-fading golden-yellow foliage year-round.Exceptionally low maintenance and pest resistant.Tolerant of heat, drought, and poor soils.Compact, neat habit without pruning
  • Landscape Uses:Low to medium hedges and screens.Borders and garden edging.Mass planting for color impact.Container and patio gardens.Accent in mixed shrub beds

Faqs

Q: Does 'Sunshine' Privet need full sun to stay yellow?
A: Yes, full sun is crucial. It requires 6+ hours of direct sunlight daily to maintain its vibrant golden-yellow color. In too much shade, it may become greener and leggy.

Q: How fast does it grow, and how big will it get?
A: It has a moderate to fast growth rate and will typically reach a mature size of 3-6 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide. It can be easily maintained smaller with annual pruning.

Q: Is it truly low maintenance? What about watering?
A: Extremely low maintenance. Once its root system is established (after the first growing season), it is very drought-tolerant. Water deeply but infrequently, only when the soil is dry. It thrives without fertilizer.

📍 Primary Delivery Area · San Francisco Bay Area

Local delivery across the Bay Area — and beyond.

San Francisco Bay Area is our primary local delivery market. Victory Nursery also serves additional California markets and selected extended delivery areas by arrangement.

Regular local delivery: San Francisco, Peninsula, South Bay, East Bay, Marin, Tracy / Mountain House and surrounding service areas.

Shop now

A good garden starts with the right size

Choose your starting point.

3 Gallon

3 Gallon

A versatile size for shrubs, grasses, perennials and young landscape plants. It offers a more established look while remaining easy to move, plant and use in groups.

Explore 3 Gallon Plants

5 Gallon

5 Gallon

A popular size for shrubs, screening plants and young trees. Large enough to make an immediate difference in the garden while still manageable for most residential projects.

Explore 5 Gallon Plants

Gallon describes the container size, not a guaranteed plant height. Individual plants vary. Contact our nursery for current measurements.

Discover More from Victory Nursery

Privet Plants
Privet Plants

Privet Plants

Shrubs
Assorted evergreen and flowering shrubs forming a layered, year-round foundation planting in a Bay Area garden

Shrubs

English Garden
English cottage-style garden border with roses, lavender, hydrangea, and layered perennials in soft romantic colors

English Garden

Hedges
Dense evergreen hedge plants used for privacy screening in a Bay Area garden

Hedges