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Featured Plant:
But the intensely fragrant flowers are only one reason to obtain this shrub. Its slender and glossy dark green leaves are evergreen, providing year-round interest. Stop in and visit us at Lavalette Garden Center and we’ll show you what we mean. Cherry laurel (prunus laurocerasus) is a common species planted since Victorian times. It’s occasionally called English laurel. Otto Luyken is classed as a half-dwarf, reaching 4 feet high and 6 to 8 feet wide.
It makes an excellent hedging plant, and can cope with deep shade under trees. When planted alone, it provides a good dark green backdrop to more ornamental plants. Afternoon shade is preferred for best performance, but the shrub has a hardy constitution, tolerating deep shade, full sun and drought. It also responds well to pruning. The foliage is also used for cut greenery in floristry.
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If you walk by a cherry laurel in full bloom, you’re likely to just stop and breathe in the sweet fragrance, and then decide you need one in your own yard.
Otto Luyken cherry laurel is a spreading medium evergreen shrub. The small, white flowers appear in spring, borne in erect racemes followed by cherry-like, red-black berries. This compact cultivar is extremely free flowering, even in the shade. 