How to create a beautiful Laurel Hedge. 

thank you for sharing this, gave me the confidence to do my own hedges.

Great tidy job Rob! Finally got a glimpse of Ian to 👍🏻

Lovely work you have done. A pleasure to watch Rob. Pure professional.

Great job Rob. Keep on top of the trimming when it gets established so it doesn’t get away from you. I’ve trimmed a Laurel patch today 6’ tall very wide. I had to use my one metre extension on my Stihl Combi hedge cutter to cut the top. I took off last years growth which was approx 4’ in length.

Rob. That’s proper graft taking out roots and all. I always try to persuade a customer to mix a hedge up ie different types and colours always looks great when it’s established. I alway use a post digger spade when I’m making holes for the newbies makes life a bit easier in my opinion. Great post.

Lovely job Rob. Great attention to detail.

Robert, that's a very nice job . Will look great 👍

Hi Rob I planted 35 cherry laurels last week also they have a front side nice and glossy backside side not so, I only realised when I had them in the ground one or 2 didn't look quite right, good job as always Rob hope all is swell 👍

nice work Rob ,great to see you in action and I am very impressed !

that looks good. I enjoy planting. especially on jobs where you can go back months/ years later and see how it has grown

Nice job. I find laurel really satisfying after planting when it has a growth spurt and spreads out 👍

You need a farmers high lift jack pal for getting roots out. Wrap a chain around the roots and get her lifted out.

Top job 👍

Great job as always Rob but tbh, as a gardener myself I'd much prefer to cut and maintain a Conifer over a Laurel any day but each to their own!

Get yourself a farm jack and a length of good chain. Wrap the chain around the stump. Fix with big screws. Connect to the jack. Sit the jack in a double thickness section of scaffolding board and just jack the stumps out as you dig and cut. It'll save you hour's of work.

Looks fab. May i ask for a rough price for taking the old hedge down and clearing the waste

Nice 👍

Nice neat job, well executed 👌

Great job , i like the laural hedges , i tend to like convincing customers to go for 2 foot spacing if possible especially on smaller runs , a makes a nice quick full screen, anywhere between 2ft and 3ft spacing is 100per cent, obviously the larger gap will take longer to grow in so to speak, i like using root balled plants as i generally can get a larger plant for less money as a root ball vrs pot grown, but those plants look good and they will grow fast , a tidy job well done, as you say keep them watered!

Superb work fellas

Very nice job it looks great mate 👍🏻👏🏻

Good job, Rob, but I would not plant a cherry laurel hedge as I hate the bugger s. Lol .I would stear the customer towards a Portuguese laurel instead. 😉. The green gold will shortly be growing !

Can you post an update on this? Would love to see how fast the Laurel Hedge grows!

Further to your ''vital to increase our prices'' commentary,...I suddenly remembered a few years ago how some gardening men in their newspaper adverts would add the comment...''Special rates or discounts for Pensioners''.....I wonder if they do that anymore Rob?! You'd be surprised how many of them are actually quite well off, probably receiving a pretty hefty private pension plus £10,500 annual state pension. Plus hundreds in the Winter Fuel Allowance...others receiving pension top-ups, both council rent and council tax also reduced to zero. Many such people are vastly better off than we are...whereas we are out in all weathers, enduring punishing physical work, day after day. How many of us are physically shattered when we wake up in the morning and then off we toddle and have to do it all over again,..it takes some degree of motivation...some real heft! Feel free Rob to knock out another video off my comments! All the best Rob.

I really want to grow laurel for privacy. I think they are beautiful shrubs. Thank you for your video on this plant.

I am thinking of planting a laurel or beach hedge along a straight line 45 metre fence. The ground is compacted stoney clay. Would it be ok to dig out the holes for each plant like you did or would I have to get a mini digger to cultivate a trench ?

Awesome video Rob! Quick question though, would you not need to give the hole a good watering before putting the plant in like you would most flower bed plants?

My laurels have barely grown this year in the UK, is this normal for the weather?

Looks a great job, how fast do they grow - ie how long before its a solid hedge as opposed to separate bushes?

Very professional job 👏 did you get it all done in one day

Great job Rob....but laurel is a horror to cut from my experience,...maybe privet would have been a better choice?

Planted some of these a few months ago but they don't seem to be doing very well. Leaves going yellow and wrinkly. Some holes in the leaves also. Is there anything I can do?

hello!!! thanks, when is the best time of the year to plant this brush?

Do u get ur plants from good nursery or big box store...??ty

The bad yale reviews were from HD gardening services pal if you didn’t see my comment in other video 👍

Hi Rob, love the channel but I have to say absolutely nothing beautiful about a laurel hedge, sorry not for me a hedge that has to be kept tidy with the secateurs and a absolute nightmare to remove from the ground.. keep up the content buddy, I'm just about ready to start back after a nice break everything sharpened and serviced..

Do you have people work for you all the time mate?

i wouldn't put laurels in, they are far too fast growing and take a lot of time to look nice. They don't make a nice tight hedge.

Cut down trees and plant laurels???🫤

Good days work, don't forget to cut the leaders back on Laurel Sir