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Portuguese Laurel

Introducing a big evergreen shrub, perfect as a specimen plant or for glossy hedging
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Key Features

  • A popular, award-winning shrub with dark, glossy leaves held on striking red stalks.
  • A classic, evergreen hedging plant and perfect for formal areas of the garden.
  • Dainty, fragrant white flowers produced in early summer on short tassels.
  • Easy to grow in any well-drained soil, in sun or shade.
  • An established plant in a 2L pot, ready for immediate planting.
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Description

An evergreen shrub with dark, glossy leaves that contrast beautifully against the striking red of its new stems. Portuguese Laurel is a classic hedging plant, perfect for formal areas of the garden and specimen planting.

Fragrant white dainty flowers are produced in early summer on short tassels, providing year-round interest and even producing small dark berries later in the season.

Easy to grow in any well-drained soil conditions, Prunus 'Angustifolia' thrives in sun or partial shade, even tolerating dry shade when regularly watered.

Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Plus, this variety has also been recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators'.

A hardy and naturally neat laurel, tolerating cold winter conditions as low as -15C, and is easy to maintain and shape with just a simple clip in summer.

Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready for immediate planting, the Portuguese laurel will reach 12m x 8m in ideal conditions.

Top Tips
Potted plants can be planted at any time of the year as long as the soil is not frozen or waterlogged.
Care Information

Planting Advice for your Portuguese Laurel Prunus lusitanica Angustifolia:

  • Grow Portuguese Laurel in well-drained soil in any sunny or partially shaded site.
  • Dig a planting hole 3 x wider than the roots of the shrub you're planting 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 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 then 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 for Portuguese Laurel:

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

 

Pruning Advice for Prunus lusitanica Angustifolia:

  • Hedges may be trimmed in summer to keep them tidy and shaped.
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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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