Cherry laurel is often used as a hedge plant because it is fast-growing. But what to do if the cherry laurel gets brown leaves?
Cherry laurel is a tree that is often used as a hedge. The advantages: fast-growing and very dense. This ensures optimal privacy protection. Now, after longer, particularly stubborn winter periods, one can often observe that the cherry laurel gets brown leaves.
That doesn't mean that the bush is frozen, but that it lacks water. This is what happens when the ground has been frozen for a long time and the roots cannot absorb liquid.
Anyone who thinks that the cherry laurel can no longer be saved is wrong. You have two options for it to sprout again soon.
- Remove the brown leaves and water regularly. In this way, it can quickly form new shoots and leaves again.
- It's even better if you cut it back completely except for the main stem and a few side shoots. Here it sprouts even faster because it can put the power directly into the existing shoots. Within a year, he's back to his previous size.
You cannot avoid this so-called frost dryness. But now you know why and that the bush isn't broken.