Danae Species, Alexandrian Laurel, Poet's Laurel

Zone 7A, Petersburg, Virginia: We moved some Manhattan euonymus from our back yard to our front yard about fifteen years ago, and poet's ...Read Morelaurel was mixed in with the roots. I didn't know what it was at the time, or I would have separated the two. It is still growing from the base of the euonymus. It hasn't spread, nor has it diminished. I have also seen some growing in a neglected section of a neighbor's yard, as well as in a small park-garden in the neighborhood. It seems to survive without much--or any-- nurturing.

Have had it for 10 years; grows beautifully along a narrow shaded (by large crepe myrtles) space between the house and a walkway in Lewes...Read More, DE and remains very green even in this year's unusual 0 degree temperatures. We amended the original soil (which was almost pure sand) with about 50% peat moss and some manure. After the first year, we have rarely if ever watered it. Nice berries in winter.

Grows slowly but well in full shade in Memphis, Tennessee.

I have seen a colony of this growing at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum, in Raleigh, and it was as lush and verdant in January as it is in Ju...Read Morely! I will buy a start as soon as I am able.
---Keith