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If the leaves are yellowing then a liquid feed with magnesium should help.
If they're just a bit sad then I would say soil improvement for the long term health (manure, mushroom compost etc), and for now a few feeds with the miracle cure that is liquid seaweed.
Also check the soil isn't dry or water logged
Lovely thanks. And would you favour a foliar application or root soak with the seaweed?
root feed with liquid seaweed then mulch with garden compost it might take a coupple of years to come right
Feed with a good manure and or a soil conditioner
Pruning encourages new growth so be ruthless Laurel grow from a stump in the ground so hope the new growth will be lush and it will use the feed to full effect. Chicken manure in buckets is a good organic balanced feed which works quickly. I personally just use B&Q soil conditioner, it smells good but odour goes in open air and has good results
I love it when hedges underperform...less hard work pruning them!
Rip it all out & plant a nice specimen instead. I HATE Laurel, it poison the ground around it, nothing else will grow.under it. Iv'e spent many days with chainsaws pruning Laurel which should be a hedge & has reached 20/30 ft. Bloody awful plant, I have never planted & always turn clients away from it if that's what they want.
Anyway, hard prune & then lots of feeding. Chix manure or farmyard. Foliar spray as well depending on the size.
Fingers crossed it all dies & you get to plant something decent instead lol.
I don't entirely agree. Yes of course there are better species out there, but when allowed to, they produce an abundance of flowers for butterflies and bees etc, and at the very least it provides cover for small birds and other critters.
Feed the roots with a sprinking of N
Then mulch down with a good old moss peat ,but dont tell anyone
Then a mix of teb & Bittersalts fine spray
Followed buy a sequentiated iron treatment every 4 weeks
We had this a few times, each time this has worked. pile in organic material under the hedge and top of with Strulch to keep the moisture in... and if in very dodgy chalk/sandy soil put in a weeping hose