Ill just share what I know
Here is my Privet.
My friend has one that doesn't bloom like mine and is about or over ten feet tall. Hers is a hedge.
I do however prune and love it enough to take pics
I believe it is and evergreen in California or elsewhere. It isn’t suppose to be hardy here but for some reason, it is. It does however change to pretty colorful shades of bronze.
It has berries after the blooms around mid July.
The blooms smell like (bi-colored honeysuckle)(simply breath taking!) and the Hummers Love it.
I prune in early May the buds will appear soon after by June 6th I will have the beginning of flowers until July, I sometime trim then hoping to get another splash of blooms but I do not recall that working.
It just grows after the blooms and while setting the berries.
I'm told the birds love them and that they wont eat them I do not know .I do however know that lots of berries are scattered all over the tree until high winds, then just a few hang on. I have not witnessed birds but my friends swears they love it ...
Is this the Privet you have? I have several I am trying to grow into mini ones like this one in various shapes, some were suckers and some were from seed I have been working with them since May 07 (I think) .The one I kept indoors would not live outside he just grew a tiny bit and lost him (may-be) in 08 season. I will see next year if he shows himself fit to be cared for.
Here you go...Does it look like this at all?
You make it if you want!
Kale