Growth Rate English Laurel (starting at 3')?
Wayne Reibold
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Best time of year to hedge/prune English Laurel?
Comments (10)Tips: You don't have to do all sides in one year, if its a serious reduction. It can get hot in late May. Don't expose too much bare stem to the sun, like major cut-backs in late May to August. The bark can get sunburned. I recall one guy - about 1989 - saying that English laurel was near indestructable, and defoliating it in June. It got "creamed" by the sun, with little foliage coming back that year, and bark peeling and cracking the next year due to the severity of sunburn. So part of the timing answer, deals with how much you plan to prune or reduce....See MorePlanting a English Laurel Hedge
Comments (5)You could try bamboo. There are ones that don't spread, they form clumps. The hardy ones that can grow in your area are in the genus Chusquea, Fargesia, and Thamnocalamus. If you have room there are runners that grow any where from a few feet to over seventy feet that are in the Phyllostachys, Pleioblastus, and Pseudosasa genus. They require lots of fertilizer, summer water (like soil wet, but well draining), and they take about seven years before they really start growing enough to block views. They are also expensive. The nurseries that I know of that sell one gallon plants sell them for around twenty to thirty dollars each. English laurel is a lot cheaper than bamboo and is attractive. If you don't want the size of English laurel, up to fifty feet, there is the other evergreen cherry that does well in Western Washington, the Portugal laurel, Prunus lusitanica. You can get seedlings as cheap as you can get English laurel seedlings. They do re-seed like English laurel, that is because birds like their fruit and spread the seeds. Both trees make good wildlife trees, both for cover and food. Neither plant re-seeds as much as their cousin the sweet cherry, which the native plant Nazis fail to tell us. And neither hybridizes with our native cherry as does the sweet cherry....See Morehelp with coconut growth and sago Palm growth rates
Comments (37)I read this thread and kind of marvel. The effort people expend to grow plants in a hostile climate. I bought a $5 sago 40 years ago when I bought my house, it is over six feet tall The male flower is (like) two feet long, every year for at least the past 15 years. A flush consists of at least two dozen fronds , (or leaves) if you prefer. I have successfully raised and given away probably three dozen pups broken off from the parent plant. Most survive, maybe 80% but some don't. It gets cold here, we are at 1700 ft. elevation and freezes some years but I have never had a sago show damage from frost. Plumaria, that's another crap shoot, but the sagos do very well here. I have managed to keep twenty pups that are well established and in the ground. In other words, this climate is very agreeable for sagos and they are common all around here, seems like everybody has at least one? I'm not rubbing your nose in it here; I salute the effort to grow (what is almost a tropical), in a climate which is not suitable. Good luck. LB PS no coconut palms here, lots of King Palms but by far the most popular and numerous palm in this area is the Queen....See MoreContainer Sizing for English or Portugal Laurel?
Comments (6)You would need some pretty darn big containers to grow either laurel to 8'!! The largest laurels we sell at my nursery are about 6' and those are B&B, not container grown. Growing anything in a container is a natural dwarfing process - because the root development is restricted by the container, the top growth is restricted as well. You can continue to upsize the container (and will need to frequently if not root pruning) but that's a great deal of effort, lots of the potting soil needed and still some BIG pots to expect that size plant any time soon. Then there is the soil interface issue when the time comes to plant in the ground and the difficulty in actually managing and planting 8' tall shrubs.The rootball will be big and very heavy. You would be better off planting directly in the ground, providing you follow the suggested recommendations for planting in a clay soil....See Morecascadians
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