Bay laurel
Laurus nobilis
MediumClimax
Production
A slow, shade-tolerant evergreen anchor that gives you bay leaves for the kitchen and clips into handsome hedges. Drought-hardy once settled, but hard frost can scorch it.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- Medium
- Lifecycle
- Climax
- Soil preference
- Loam, Sandy
- Soil pH range
- 6 – 8
- Min. temperature
- -10°C
- Min. rainfall
- 500 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- High
- Frost tolerance
- Medium
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Irrigation needed
- Low
How to manage it
Shade-tolerant evergreen culinary tree that clips beautifully for hedges or topiary; drought-hardy once established.
Watch out for
Slow-growing and low mulch output, so don't count on it for biomass; hard frost scorches foliage and it suckers into a thicket if unmanaged.
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