laurel hedge plants
Looking for the ideal option for attractive, dense, and evergreen garden screening? Laurel hedge plants are a popular choice across New Zealand for creating lush, private boundaries and windbreaks. These versatile shrubs bring year-round colour, rapid growth, and excellent resilience, making them perfect for both urban and rural gardens. Whether you need a classic backdrop, a sound barrier, or a textured green wall that’s easy to maintain, laurel hedge plants will suit your needs.
Prunus laurocerasus
Prunus laurocerasus (Cherry Laurel) is a vigorous evergreen shrub admired for its lush glossy foliage and excellent screening qualities. This hardy plant produces dense green leaves year round, creating an attractive backdrop for gardens and landscapes throughout New Zealand. During spring, upright clusters of fragrant white flowers appear, followed by small dark berries that attract birds. Prunus laurocerasus is ideal for hedging, shelter planting, privacy screening, and large feature plantings where fast growth and reliable evergreen coverage are desired. Its adaptability and low maintenance nature make it a popular landscaping choice.
From $30.29
Laurus nobilis angustifolia
Laurus nobilis angustifolia is a variety of Laurel grown for its compact growth habit and elegant foliage. This evergreen tree features lush, dark green leaves that are aromatic when crushed. Flowers produced in spring are pale yellow-green and result in small, glossy, black berries as it grows to 5 m tall and 4 m wide. Laurus nobilis angustifolia is ideal for trimming into a hedge, using as a screening plant, planting as a backdrop for smaller plants, maintaining in a container, shaping into a topiary, or growing as a specimen. The leaves on this variety are the well-known Bay Leaves, and can be used fresh or dry in cooking to add flavour to dishes.
From $430.15
