Bright 'N Tight Carolina Laurel
Prunus caroliniana ‘Monus’ · a Carolina cherry laurel
A compact, tightly branched Carolina cherry laurel that shears into a dense evergreen hedge, with glossy leaves that smell of cherry when crushed and sweetly scented flowers in late winter, followed by berries birds eat. It takes heat, wind, dry spells and sea air. Its leaves and seeds are poisonous to people and pets.
- Mature size
- 10 × 7 ft
- 3 × 2.1 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Feb–Apr
Bright 'N Tight Carolina Laurel at its mature size
A mature Bright 'N Tight Carolina Laurel grows 8 to 12 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: San Marcos Growers.
Through the year
What Bright 'N Tight Carolina Laurel looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Thick glossy dark green narrow leaves to the ground.
Growing Bright 'N Tight Carolina Laurel
- Grows well in
- The Southeast, the Plains and Mountain West, and California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, foundation planting, specimen, deer resistant, pollinators, winter interest, and fragrant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Selection of a Southeastern United States native
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Bright 'N Tight Carolina Laurel, that’s about 7 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Bright 'N Tight Carolina Laurel in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other cherry laurels
Otto Luyken Cherry LaurelBright 'N Tight Carolina Laurel
Skip LaurelAll drawn to the same scale.