{"id":9801,"date":"2011-03-07T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9801"},"modified":"2011-03-07T07:23:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:23:17","slug":"spotted-laurel-acuba-japonica-crotonifolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/spotted-laurel-acuba-japonica-crotonifolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted Laurel Acuba Japonica Crotonifolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Spotted Laurel by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5505489267\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5220\/5505489267_70789335f3.jpg\" alt=\"Spotted Laurel\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good sized shrub the Laurels are sold under several family names.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Spotted Laurel Acuba<\/strong> is an evergreen shrub for almost anywhere in the garden.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I grow mine 5 feet tall in quite dark shade.<\/li>\n<li> It is quite slow growing but very hardy.<\/li>\n<li> Shade helps the yellow spots &#8211; strong sun encourages green chlorophyll<\/li>\n<li> The soil is moist and rich but it would also do as a hedge plant in ground.<\/li>\n<li> Shrubs may be strictly pruned as hedges, left to grow unchecked, or lightly trimmed to shape once annually, always using secateurs to avoid cutting the large leaves.<\/li>\n<li>All parts of the plant are poisonous, take care with the seeds.<\/li>\n<li>Propagate by softwood cuttings in spring\/summer or less reliably by seed.<\/li>\n<li>Crotonifolia and Variegata are  \tthe best varieties. Both are female so they produce red berries which  \tusually last from the autumn\u00c2\u00a0 through to spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/images?q=laurel+spotted&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1584&amp;bih=733\"> images<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good sized shrub the Laurels are sold under several family names. The Spotted Laurel Acuba is an evergreen shrub for almost anywhere in the garden. I grow mine 5 feet tall in quite dark shade. It is quite slow growing but very hardy. Shade helps the yellow spots &#8211; strong sun encourages green chlorophyll The soil is moist and rich but it would also do as a hedge plant in ground. Shrubs may be strictly pruned as hedges, left&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/spotted-laurel-acuba-japonica-crotonifolia\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}