Why Plant Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel?
Meet the Cherry Laurel's mini me - the Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel. This plant is covered head to toe with broad glossy deep green leaves with fuzzy upright white flowers that bloom in the springtime and are extremely fragrant! This plant is one obvious choice when decorating your garden. Otto's are manageable, easy to grow, and very low maintenance. The only thing you'll have to do is sit back and watch them look pretty! These shrubs are extremely fast-growing—so it won't take long for it beauty to shine! In the spring, this shrub will gift you with its wonderful upright and fragrant white flowers. In the winter, it won't bore you as its evergreen deep green broad leaves will bring life in the dead of winter!
The Otto Luyken variety was only found in 1968 at the Hesse Nursery in Weene, Hanover. This shrub quickly became popular across Europe and soon was brought to American where it gained popularity even faster. The Otto Luyken received an Award of Garden Merit from the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society of England in 1993 for its favorable size and amount of lovely fragrant flowers.
How to use Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel in the landscape?
Because of the Cherry Laurels beautifully fragrant flowers, it is ideal to plant around your home as a wonderful foundation plant, create a magical structure with these wonderful plants to up your curb-appeal! Cherry Laurels work wonderfully with other shrubs of many other shapes and sizes.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 6-9
How To Plant Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel
This plant lives its best life when grown in full sun but also may enjoy partial shade. In hotter climates it will appreciate some shade so keep that in mind. The Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel has a wide variety of tolerances including dry or poor soils, pollution, heavy pruning, and most urban conditions. We do recommend planting in either spring or fall for best establishment results.
How To Water
Watering your Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel when first planted should occur on a weekly basis. Every other day for the first two to three weeks until established. When settled, commence watering when necessary and be mindful of dry, hotter, periods checking the soil and making sure their thirst is quenched.
How To Prune
The Otto Luyken Cherry Laurel is a low maintenance shrub that does not normally require pruning. Once established, during late spring early summer pruning may be done just to keep them looking neat and tidy.
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
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Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
