I've got what I think is a large (5' high, 2 or 3' wide) bay bush in my
garden but so far it has not flowered which others seem to do. Are they male
and female? Do they all flower? TIA,

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Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)

On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:48:47 +0100, H Ryder wrote
(in article <z9Gcg.104$bO5.63 [at] newsfe2-win.ntli.net>):

> I've got what I think is a large (5' high, 2 or 3' wide) bay bush in my
> garden but so far it has not flowered which others seem to do. Are they male
> and female? Do they all flower? TIA,
>
I
I don't think there's a gender issue but they do like to be in the sun.
Those of ours which are shaded by other trees don't flower but the ones in
sunny positions do.

H Ryder <hayley.ryderNOSPAM [at] tesco.net> writes
>I've got what I think is a large (5' high, 2 or 3' wide) bay bush

That's not large ;-)

I pruned a lump 8ft wide, 10ft long and 8ft high off the top of one of
mine.

> in my
>garden but so far it has not flowered which others seem to do. Are they male
>and female?

Yes
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Laurus+nobilis

>Do they all flower?

As far as I know. I don't know that they have any purely vegetative
(?Neuter) plants and I would think it unlikely

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Kay