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Description

Low maintenance, easy to grow, beautiful, and very useful in the kitchen - Bay Trees are excellent growers with mouth-wateringly flavoured leaves and a rich aroma. Add to marinades or use them to add depth to cooking all year round.

Easy to maintain, these thrive in moist, well-drained soil, positioned in full sun or partial shade. Ensure you prune back in December, January, and February to keep your trees looking healthy, year after year. Bay leaves have a spicy, peppery, aromatic flavour and are commonly used in curries, soups and stews.

Leaves can be used fresh or you can harvest and dry them in summer, to give them a more robust flavour, before storing for up to a year. Dried leaves can also be brewed to make a healthy and delicious herbal tea. The wood can be used to smoke meat, giving it a distinct flavour.

These 70-80cm tall plants are supplied ready to gift, each intricately hand-wrapped in a timeless brown hessian bag, with a beautiful green fabric bow.

Top Tips

Topiary is best trimmed with secateurs during summer to encourage a dense habit and to maintain a balanced shape. Prune new shoots to a bud facing in the direction of the desired growth.

Care Information

Bay trees will grow in any well-drained soil in a sunny position, and thrive in containers, as long as they are kept well-watered.
Use a soil-based compost with extra grit added to improve stability of the post and help drainage as bay roots dislike sitting in wet.
Add controlled-release fertiliser granules to the pot or use a liquid feed every two week from mid-spring to late summer.
Check plants and repot every two years in spring so that the soil does not become exhausted and stale.
Bay can withstand temperatures down to -5C, but frost and cold winter winds can damage the foliage so protect plants with fleece if temperatures are likely to fall below this. Similarly, pots can be wrapped in bubble wrap to protect them.
Any damage caused by winter cold can be pruned out in the spring.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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