How to plant and care for it

There are many reasons for the cherry laurel

Among other popular Hedge plants the cherry laurel is valued primarily for its growth characteristics. On the one hand, it grows strong and bushy enough that, after planting the young plants at a distance of about 50 cm, a reasonably dense and high hedge is created just a few years later. On the other hand, the growth is also moderate enough that one pruning per year should be sufficient even with a height of over 2 m. The following properties characterize a Privacy hedge from cherry laurel from:

• Opacity after a few years at the location
• Cherry laurel is evergreen
• the deciduous wood usually does not shed its leaves even in winter (less fall of leaves in the garden)
• Depending on the variety, fragrant, white flowers are sometimes formed

Be careful in locations with severe winter frosts

First of all, autumn plantings should be avoided when planting cherry laurel. Only after planting in spring do the plants have enough time to root in order to survive a cold winter unscathed. Severe winter frosts can be dangerous for some varieties of cherry laurel. However, planting the plants in a particularly sun-drenched location is by no means a solution to this problem. On the contrary: the can have strong fluctuations between day and night temperatures Privacy hedge from cherry laurel does more harm than a location in the rather damp Penumbra.

Cut the cherry laurel correctly

A long and high one Cherry laurel hedge can, like other shrubs and hedge plants, also in principle with an electric Hedge trimmer(€ 139.30 at Amazon *) get cut. Since the number of individual twigs and ramifications is limited with the cherry laurel, targeted, manual pruning with one is also possible Loppers at. This not only makes it easier to collect the cut material, but also means that leaves are not cut in half, which then turn ugly on the plants.