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Removing Laurel hedge flowers
Hello.

A couple of years ago, we planted half a dozen laurels at the front of our house to eventually form a hedge. They have been growing steadily but in the last few weeks they have begun flowering vigorously.

I want them to put on as much leafy growth as possible. The question is if I were to remove the flowers, would this stimulate more leaf growth or would it prove detrimental to the plants?
Thanks for your thoughts.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Those flowers are great for bees .... if it was my hedge I'd leave them ... but then I am a beekeeper
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Trim the hedge when they've gone over.