🌿 Skip Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus ‘Schipkaensis’)

The Skip Laurel is one of the most popular evergreen privacy shrubs, known for its fast growth, dense foliage, and excellent cold hardiness. It creates a thick, lush green hedge that provides year-round privacy and screening.

✅ Key Features

• 🌿 Dense Evergreen Privacy – Thick foliage for full screening
• ⚡ Fast Growing – Quickly fills in for privacy hedges
• ❄️ Cold Hardy – More cold-tolerant than other laurels
• 🌳 Versatile Hedge Plant – Works in sun or partial shade
• ✂️ Easily Shaped – Ideal for formal or natural hedges

📏 Size & Growth

• Mature Height: 10–18 feet
• Mature Width: 5–7 feet
• Growth Rate: Fast (2–3 ft per year)
• Growth Habit: Upright, dense

👉 Perfect for privacy hedges, screening, and property borders

🌱 Planting & Spacing

• Recommended Spacing:

  • 3–5 feet apart for privacy hedge
  • 5–7 feet apart for natural spacing

• Best Uses:

  • Privacy screening
  • Property lines
  • Windbreaks
  • Foundation planting

☀️ Light Requirements

• Full sun to partial shade
• Very adaptable to different light conditions

💧 Watering

• Regular watering during establishment
• Moderate water needs once established
• Prefers well-drained soil

🌿 Soil Conditions

• Tolerates a wide range of soils
• Performs best in:
  • Well-drained soil
  • Slightly acidic conditions

❄️ Hardiness

• USDA Zones: 5–9
• Excellent cold tolerance compared to other laurels

✂️ Maintenance

• Low maintenance
• Responds well to pruning
• Can be shaped into formal hedges or left natural

🌿 Why Choose Skip Laurel?

• Faster and hardier than English Laurel ✅
• Dense growth for better privacy ✅
• More cold-tolerant for northern climates ✅

👉 One of the best evergreen privacy plants available

🛒 Ideal For

• Privacy hedges
• Property borders
• Noise reduction
• Year-round greenery

✅ Bottom Line

The Skip Laurel is a fast-growing, durable, and dense evergreen that creates beautiful, long-lasting privacy hedges with minimal maintenance.