Laurel Hedging - Prunus laurocerasus

Laurel Hedging - Prunus laurocerasus

Introduce a traditional, timeless hedge to your garden - or extend your existing one!

Just £5.99
1 x 8/9cm Pot - SKU: 500037
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Key Features

  • The best choice for fast-growing hedging and screening - evergreen, easy to grow and looks great all year.
  • Buy only as many as you need - plant 35-40cm apart for best results.
  • Can reach 4m in 7-10 years if not trimmed, so makes a great divider.
  • Forms thick barriers of shiny, deep green leaves making ideal for wind shelter, and visual screening.
  • Supplied as well-rooted 3-year-old plants 25-30cm tall, in 8/9cm pots, just waiting to grow away.
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Description

If you need fast-growing, easy to maintain, and evergreen hedging, look no further than the ever-popular classic Laurel Hedge.

Best used to produce an ornate hedgerow that stretches up to around 1-3m tall, quickly forming a dense canopy of shiny green leaves. Plus, this Laurel grows at a rate of 30-40cm every year, but will not take over the garden.

Easy to grow and maintain, just trim to shape and height twice a year. Suitable for planting all year round, as it is pot grown, for the quickest and most successful establishment. For best results, and for a striking eventual hedge display, plant three plants per rough linear metre.

Supplied as an established, well-rooted plant, roughly 25-30cm tall, with three years of growth already. This hedge arrives in a 8-9cm nursery pot, ready to plant and grow away.

This Laurel hedge is available in a number of bundle sizes. For a quote for larger quantities, please call our dedicated Customer Services team.

Top Tips
Easy to grow in any moist but well-drained, moderately fertile soil in sun or partial shade. Its spreading habit makes it useful for low hedges and massed planting. Try clipping it low to create and evergreen laurel ‘lawn’ under specimen shrubs and trees.
Care Information

Planting Advice:

  • Grow Cherry Laurel in well-drained soil in any sunny or partially shaded site. This variety will even tolerate growing conditions in full shade.
  • Dig a planting hole three times the width of existing roots and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill one the shrub is in place.
  • We've found that a square hole is better than a round one as new roots, once they reach the edges, tend to grow in a circle round the circumference of the hole, whereas when they reach the corners of a square hole, they find it easier to grow through.
  • Before planting soak container-grown shrubs thoroughly and allow to drain.
  • Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
  • Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker.
  • Place your shrub in the hole at the same level at the pot and refill the hole with the earth removed, in a process called backfilling.
  • Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball and water well.
  • Mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc.

Aftercare advice:

  • Keep plants well-watered while they establish.
  • Hardy in winter conditions down to -15C, protect from cold winds as it is these that tend to cause the most damage to young plants.

Pruning Advice:

  • Hedges may be trimmed in spring or autumn to keep them tidy and shaped, if pruning at the end of the season (when growth has finished), do it before the onset of very cold weather.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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2. Should any hardy plant fail to thrive thereafter, we'll replace free of charge - you just pay the P&P
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