Privet (bush) Tree in my back yard

That is a big tree/shrub, ramsey, but I'll bet it is gorgeous when in bloom. When I was looking up the answer, I was also reading about this privet, and like you said, it's very evasive and they're having a lot of trouble with it in the South. Because the nature of it; it makes a lot of shade, pushing out the native ground plants and giving way to other invasive shade loving ground plants taking their place. Sort of like the Purple Loosestrife up here in the northeast. It's pushing tons of the cat tails out of their habitat, and a lot of birds depend on them for food and nest building, along with a host of other vegtation loving mammals...which in turn brings in the meat loving predtors. In some of the ditches and pond edges where all there used to be was cat tails, now is just the opposite. all loosestrife.