Plant: Bright 'N Tight - Cherry Laurel
Cherry Laurel · Prunus laurocerasus 'Bright 'N Tight'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Cherry laurel is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the rose family native to Europe. With its erect habit and glossy dark green leaves the species grows up to 20 feet tall and spreads to about 10 feet, bearing fragrant white star shaped flowers under an inch across in dense cylindrical racemes up to four inches long in spring, followed by purple black drupes in summer. It grows rapidly in full sun through deep shade in clay, loam, sandy or organic soil with good drainage, and tolerates alkaline soils, dry and poor soils, pollution and heavy pruning while being intolerant of heavy fertilization and having competitive roots. It is used as a screen for shaded areas, a tall hedge, a mass planting or a specimen.
- Full Shade
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 20 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-8
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Cherry laurel is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the rose family native to Europe. With its erect habit and glossy dark green leaves the species grows up to 20 feet tall and spreads to about 10 feet, bearing fragrant white star shaped flowers under an inch across in dense cylindrical racemes up to four inches long in spring, followed by purple black drupes in summer. It grows rapidly in full sun through deep shade in clay, loam, sandy or organic soil with good drainage, and tolerates alkaline soils, dry and poor soils, pollution and heavy pruning while being intolerant of heavy fertilization and having competitive roots. It is used as a screen for shaded areas, a tall hedge, a mass planting or a specimen.
- Flowers
- White, star shaped flowers with 4 to 5 petals and about 20 stamens, under an inch across, carried in dense cylindrical axillary racemes up to 4 inches long.
- Foliage
- Broadleaf evergreen, simple, alternate and elliptical to oblong with entire to serrate margins, glossy and dark green, with 2 to 8 conspicuous glands on the underside of the blade.
- Fruit
- Purple black drupes less than an inch in size.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
- Native range
- Europe
