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Mike writes:
| In article , Ian Snowdon
| writes
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| We are told that you can't just take a cutting and get it to grow, it's
| more difficult than that. OK, so how should it be done?

You can take cuttings, but I am not good at them.

| Depending on how well the garden around it has been cultivated, you
| might very well find small Bay Plants growing already, these will be
| easy to lift and grow on. We have bay and these little plants grow
| almost like weeds.

That doesn't sound like sweet bay, Laurus nobilis. It doesn't often
seed itself in the UK, but might in some places. It does sucker, and
digging up a sucker complete with some root would be the best way,
but it could be tricky getting enough root. It is what I would try.

| BUT, am I correct in saying that there are 'Bay Trees' and bay trees? To
| me a bay tree is a bay and they all look the same. :-(

Yes. There are several plants called "bay" and several that look
like Laurus nobilis but aren't. Sweet bay's leaves smell like the
bay leaves you buy for cooking when crushed (only better than dry
ones), because they are :-)


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