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Cherry Laurel Hedging

Timeless and traditional. Hedging perfection for your garden
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50 x 9cm Pots - SKU: 500253
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Key Features

  • One of the best choices for fast-growing hedging and screening - evergreen, easy to grow and they look great through the year
  • Plant 35-40cm apart for impressive, thick screening in your garden. Improve your garden privacy with a natural barrier
  • Laurel hedges can reach a massively impressive 4m across 7-10 years, if saved from trimming, so make great dividers
  • Enjoy thick barriers of shiny, deep green leaves, ideal for wind shelter and visual screening
  • Supplied as a set of 50 well-rooted plants, at three years old and approximately 25-30cm tall, in individual 9cm pots, ready to plant
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Description

Fast-growing, easy to maintain, and evergreen for year-round beauty. Very few hedges quite match the rich and dense foliage Cherry Laurel bring to the garden. Also known as English Laurel, this glossy green hedging plant acts as a backdrop for gardens up and down the country, featuring springtime shows of dainty white flowers.

When most other plants and gardens are starting to slow down for autumn, the flowers fade to make way for festive displays of cherry-red berries, providing food for birds at a time when it is most needed.

This variety has even been recommended by the RHS as a ‘Plant for Pollinators’, due to an excellent ability to draw the attention of beneficial insects.

These hardy hedges perform well in most soil types and areas of the garden, including full sun or partial shade. Best used to produce hedges between 1m and 3m tall, quickly forming a dense canopy of shiny green leaves, Laurels grows at a rate of 30-40cm per 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 these are pot grown, for the quickest and most successful establishment. Plant three hedging plants per linear metre of hedge for best results.

Supplied as a set of 50 established plant in 9cm pots, ready to plant.

Top Tips
Easy to grow in any moist but well-drained, moderately fertile soil in sun or partial shade. A 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 also grow well in full shade.
  • Dig a planting hole three times wider than the roots of the shrub you're planting and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole, using this to re-fill once the shrub is in place.
  • We've found that a square hole is better than a round one as the 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 (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 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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