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ID please - shrub

JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
edited May 2022 in Plants
A relative wants me to lower the height of these but this kind of shrub isn’t really my forte. Will they regrow to cover woody areas if I go in hard?

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    It look like Portugal Laurel-
    Some info here inc. pruning
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/14003/prunus-lusitanica/details

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    That looks like the one, brilliant, thanks 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You can cut it back hard, it will shoot out from the base and thicken at the bottom.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Lyn said:
    You can cut it back hard, it will shoot out from the base and thicken at the bottom.
    Thanks, as soon as I heard it was a laurel i showed no mercy!
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I did this to mine about a month ago jellyfire. Starting to lift the crown and it's given me a bit more garden to grow ferns in the shady corner. 


    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Lovely @Uff, I do the same with mine at home. This is just a hedge that has got too big
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