My Bay's are glowing with health, they are in 15 inch pots of loam and grit and fed Spring and September. At the end of October they get moved next to the house wall under the eaves next to the kitchen door as they are used on a daily basis. With some shelter, not letting them get water logged they will thrive, a gentle hair cut in spring keeps the shape.
why didn't I ask on here before my plants are very precious to me and I hate to see them looking so sad.Have you any advice regards the pruning but first think I will transplant it into some John Innes no3 and some fine grit in March.Thank you all so much for your valued advice.
I have a mature bay tree growing on my allotment and it is a pest. The more you cut it back the bigger it gets. I don't have the heart to dig it up so attacking it with a vengence twice a year is my only option!
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Yes, it makes a big tree/thicket if allowed to grow 'free range' - pots are the way to go unless your garden is half a Mediterranean hillside
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My Bay's are glowing with health, they are in 15 inch pots of loam and grit and fed Spring and September. At the end of October they get moved next to the house wall under the eaves next to the kitchen door as they are used on a daily basis. With some shelter, not letting them get water logged they will thrive, a gentle hair cut in spring keeps the shape.
Frank.
why didn't I ask on here before my plants are very precious to me and I hate to see them looking so sad.Have you any advice regards the pruning but first think I will transplant it into some John Innes no3 and some fine grit in March.Thank you all so much for your valued advice.
I have a mature bay tree growing on my allotment and it is a pest. The more you cut it back the bigger it gets. I don't have the heart to dig it up so attacking it with a vengence twice a year is my only option!