It's the culinary form which means the leaves can be used in cooking but nobody needs that many. Depending on the style of the rest of the garden you can keep it clipped as a rounded shrubs so it stays in bounds or straight and formal like a hedge or a cube.
If allowed to get tall, these shrubs can get very dense and dark and looming. We inherited a tall, dark one in our new garden and sat and looked at it for 18 months before we decided it needed to be lightened. I took off all the stems up my head height leaving a multi-stemmed shrub we can see thru and which looks and feels lighter.
This is the before and after from March last year. Now we can see where we're going with the mower and the dogs can play ticky more easily.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Laurus nobilis ..common name bay tree.
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He's asking for ID, that's all, and fortunately he's been given the advice needed.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If allowed to get tall, these shrubs can get very dense and dark and looming. We inherited a tall, dark one in our new garden and sat and looked at it for 18 months before we decided it needed to be lightened. I took off all the stems up my head height leaving a multi-stemmed shrub we can see thru and which looks and feels lighter.
This is the before and after from March last year.
Now we can see where we're going with the mower and the dogs can play ticky more easily.