We’ve just bought a house and are tackling a very overgrown garden.
We’ve removed a thuggish Leylandii and this shrub was at the end of it (hence half brown half green).
It looks like a bay but I’ve only had single trunk ones so wasn’t sure if it was a different type of laurel?
We want to put a garden room in this area so it needs to go, but have plenty of room to move it or some of it if sensible. Equally have a much smaller bay tree on our previous garden that we can put in instead?
Any input gratefully received 😊
by Prestigious_Win9892
8 Comments
Smell the leaves, looks like bay
Do you need to do anything? What is “overgrown”? You know gardens are supposed to contain foliage, right?
It’s a bay. You won’t be able to move it. Just get rid if you don’t want it. Not sure how you would move ‘some of it’ either!
Carve it into the shape of Peter Rabbit
Cut out the twiggy stuff at the bottom and make less of a bush and more of a tree.
Could you not put the summer house elsewhere? It’s a well established bay tree, it will fill out nicely again
It’s bay, I love mine and using it for cooking. I’m planning to use it as a grill skewer too. Mine also comes up from the roots if I leave it.
Moving or removing is the same, you have to dig it out. I would try to keep it in whole or even a few suckers and plant it elsewhere. But if nothing works, dry some leaves.
Aawith other members of the laurel family, they can be cut back hard.