Ligustrum vulgare or Privet is a sturdy and dense shrub with smooth grey/brown bark, dark green, glossy lanceolate shaped foliage and produces panicles of white flowers in summer.
It is mainly grown as a screen or hedge as it responds so well to trimming - becoming more dense.
It can however be grown as a feature shrub, though it is best kept trimmed to shape for best effect.
N.B. VERY INVASIVE - classified as a weed in Australia and can block up watercourses.