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Adventurous Laurel
yorkshire-ruz
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Hi all,
First post here so do be nice!
I've just moved in to a new house, finally I have a garden again and there's plenty to do.
Over in the neglected pond corner there's a a rather adventurous Laurel bush. Well, may as well call it a tree now! As you can see in the pic below it's gone fairly wild. Looks like the neighbours have been having a good hack at it, and rightly so as it's clearly headed into their properties at some point.
The top is very full, with the lower being very patchy with dead wood and not much new growth.
Trees have never been my thing, in fact it's the first garden I've ever had one in!
Now, my first temptation was to leave it be this season and completely remove once summer has passed. But then I wondered about trying to save it.
Based on what you see below, do you guys thinks it's worth saving? My thought is that whatever I do it'll take a long time to recover.
There's much else to be done in this corner and looking forward to giving the pond some TLC once the tadpoles have moved along.
Thanks in advance folks! Look forward to learning more through this forum
First post here so do be nice!
I've just moved in to a new house, finally I have a garden again and there's plenty to do.
Over in the neglected pond corner there's a a rather adventurous Laurel bush. Well, may as well call it a tree now! As you can see in the pic below it's gone fairly wild. Looks like the neighbours have been having a good hack at it, and rightly so as it's clearly headed into their properties at some point.
The top is very full, with the lower being very patchy with dead wood and not much new growth.
Trees have never been my thing, in fact it's the first garden I've ever had one in!
Now, my first temptation was to leave it be this season and completely remove once summer has passed. But then I wondered about trying to save it.
Based on what you see below, do you guys thinks it's worth saving? My thought is that whatever I do it'll take a long time to recover.
There's much else to be done in this corner and looking forward to giving the pond some TLC once the tadpoles have moved along.
Thanks in advance folks! Look forward to learning more through this forum
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you can cut it down to below the height where you like it to finish up, it will start to shoot out fresh green straight way and have nice fresh grow this summer.
Try just cutting it to the height of your fence for now, next year you can decide to go a bit more if you want to.