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Laurel Tree - or Bay ?
On with my garden inventory - after close inspection I find that I have a
Laurel tree - a whopper. Google tells me that it is a great source of Bay leaves (which sounds a bit silly - Laurel trees have bay leaves - but I concluded that Bay was probably a Laurel subspecies. My inital irritation at having spent fortunes on bay leaves for my stews and curries in the past, subsided when I inpected the leaves on the tree and found they were far bigger and fatter - and maybe even greener than the ones I use for cooking. Is this something to do with the age of the tree (it is at least 12 years old, and probably much older) - do I need to take a cutting and grow a smaller bush to be able to harvest the smaller finer leaves ? - Or is my Bay tree really just a laurel. My neighbour tells me she has used the leaves for cooking - from a small sapling that grew on her side of the fence. My wife said that she would probably be wearing the leaves next week (she gets confused between Laurel which you can wear as a crown and Fig leaves - which serve a very different purpose) - but again I digress .... :-) The real reason I got so interested in the Laurel is that my two Honeysuckles at the top end of the garden are looking very very sad - the leaves are all curly and dusty and the flowers wilted - watering has not helped - and one of them is almost devoid of leaves. They are shaded by the Laurel - and it has grown right over the top of them this year - I am tempted to lop a few branches off it anyway - but could this have caused it ? My local garden cente chap said it was worth giving them a dose of Bonemeal (with blood !!) - so I have done that. I also gave them a good sprinkling with some feed - mainly Nitrogen - but 20ml to 2 gallons of water seems very mean ? Am I on the right track here ? As ever your help is very much appreciated - please ? |
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