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Old 08-09-2008, 08:42 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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"Mary Fisher" writes:
| "Graham" wrote in message
| news:qSdxk.259806$gc5.201181@pd7urf2no...
| I have a bay laurel in a pot in the kitchen window (killer frosts are
| predicted this week and the winter her is severe) and, after a season of
| vigorous growth, it needs cutting back and shaping.
| What is the best time for pruning?
|
| I'm not in your part of the world but my bay is in a pot outside and in
| comparitive shade from sun and has withstood frosts, drought, wet, rain,
| wet, damp, rain (the last five this summer) and it's never suffered. I've
| never pruned it - except of course for removing the odd leaves for culinary
| use.

Bay can't take hard frosts. In a pot, it can be killed by sustained
periods of below -10, and it always suffers even from short ones of
below -15.

Anyway, you can prune it whenever you like - it is a good hedging
plant and will regrow from both new and old wood.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.