The evergreen cherry laurel is ideal for garden design both as a solitary plant and as a hedge. The wood adapts to different styles and sets attractive accents with its beautifully shaped and intensely colored foliage. Many garden plants can be combined well with the laurel cherry, creating the relaxed yet harmonious overall impression of a mixed hedge.

Loosen up the cherry laurel hedge with other trees

Colorful mixed hedges provide good privacy and wind protection and offer native birds and insects an optimal habitat. The laurel cherry can be combined particularly well with the following trees:

Buddleia:

Flowers profusely when cut correctly and is a favorite of butterflies.

dogwood:

Impresses with its pretty foliage with attractive autumn colors. Some species also bear charming aggregate fruits that look like strawberries.

Broom:

Flowers in spring in striking yellow, white, pink or orange, depending on the variety.

mother-of-pearl shrub:

The Kolkwitzia blooms profusely and attracts droves of insects with its beguiling scent.

mock orange:

Flowers bright white. The scent of the pretty flowers is reminiscent of jasmine.

snowball:

The year-round hedge beauty enchants in spring with round, white flower umbels from which bright red berries develop.

Weigela:

The color of the bell-shaped flowers of this undemanding shrub varies from light pink to rich pink.

spars:

Bears panicle-like white, pink or violet flowers as early as April and serves as an early pasture for bees. Depending on the species, the spar blooms several times well into the fall.

Combine shrubs in the garden

If you combine the laurel cherry with flowering shrubs, you should not only consider the color of the flower, but also the shape and shade of the leaves. Hedges in which evergreen shrubs such as the cherry laurel alternate with deciduous trees and shrubs look particularly pretty. As a result, these plantings offer a certain privacy screen even in the cold season.

An underplanting of the cherry laurel hedge sets visual accents

In the foreground, the laurel cherry hedge can be combined with companion plants, which thrive well in the shade. This will prevent you from unsightly moss covering the shaded areas. A good combination are shade plants and ground cover, such as:

  • Spring flowers such as lilies of the valley, snowdrops or crocuses
  • lady's mantle
  • ferns
  • hosts
  • gold nettle
  • Ragwort
  • star umbels

tips and tricks

So that the hedge of cherry laurel and other trees gives a harmonious impression, you should plant the bushes rhythmically. Depending on the length of the hedge, limit yourself to a few species that you plant alternately.

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Trees