I don’t agree with them telling you to leave the bag in place! If you cut them down to just below the wall they will grow up in the summer much thicker, but it’s not just one cutting back, you have to also pick out the top leaves and cut back all the side branches as well and do it every year. Here’s mine, 1st year on planting then we cut back to a half.
2 Nd year, keep picking tops out,
And now they would have been very tall had we not cut them down twice a year. If you want a thick hedge you need to cut and cut and cut whilst they are growing,I don’t know what to say about the sacks in the roots though, you won’t want to dig them up now!
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Love the snowies - that's what I'm hoping for! Looks rather a sunny position there, did they survive last summer's heat?
Never sees the sun, it faces north. Those laurels have never been watered or fed. ( mind you, this is Devon ☔️ 🌧) They’ll grow anywhere, we’ve got some on a stony bank, hardly any soil. Just cut of bits poked in. As long as they’re cut down regularly they’ll grow on.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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If you cut them down to just below the wall they will grow up in the summer much thicker, but it’s not just one cutting back, you have to also pick out the top leaves and cut back all the side branches as well and do it every year.
Here’s mine,
1st year on planting then we cut back to a half.
2 Nd year, keep picking tops out,
And now they would have been very tall had we not cut them down twice a year.
If you want a thick hedge you need to cut and cut and cut whilst they are growing,I don’t know what to say about the sacks in the roots though, you won’t want to dig them up now!
Those laurels have never been watered or fed. ( mind you, this is Devon ☔️ 🌧) They’ll grow anywhere, we’ve got some on a stony bank, hardly any soil. Just cut of bits poked in. As long as they’re cut down regularly they’ll grow on.