"curiosity" [email protected] wrote in message
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Newbie needs help with garden just acquired

I'd be grateful if someone could identify from these pictures I've just
taken of
the shrub and its leaf.
It's a pleasant but uneveventful looking orb of about 5 feet in diameter.
I'd
like to cut it back into a smaller sphere but don't know what is
acceptable (or
when it should be done). Perhaps it produces flowers and I should wait?

help most appreciated.

http://www.geocities.com/quooriosity/whatsthis

http://www.geocities.com/quooriosity/leaf
Looks like a nasty old laurel to me.