In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome the laurels were considered as the most esteemed plant. Did wreaths with which awarded great people, poets and winners of its branches. Dried leaves of laurels use in cookery, add them during the cooking of soups, preparation of marinades and suppression. However it is quite possible to grow up this tree in the ordinary apartment and to use fresh leaves from own laurels.
1. The laurel tree is possible to grow upfor from seeds, by means of shanks or root offsprings, and at reproduction by seeds he best of all gets used to room conditions.
2. Sow seeds at the end of February or the beginning of March in capacity with the nutritious soil (for this purpose also ready soil quite will be suitable for seedling or dekorativnolistvenny plants). Temperature for germination has to be not lower than eighteen degrees. As soon as there are two leaves, seat seedlings at distance of 2х2 cm or in separate pots. Regularly water and spray them.
3. If you have decided to grow up laurel tree from shanks, then cut them at spring from neodrevesnevevshy escapes on which there are two or three interstices. Length of shanks should not exceed 6-8 cm. Remove several leaves before landing and which have remained – truncate. Do not cut off the lower part of shank completely, and partially tear off that at the lower knot it was formed "Piglet" that will promote the best formation of roots. Plant shanks in coarse-grained sand at an angle of 45 degrees.
4. The offsprings growing from plant roots separate at change and land in small pots.
5. Though laurels - plant rather unpretentious, but nevertheless it loves solar places more. Besides, it follows pritenyat from direct sunshine and to turn periodically in relation to luminous source that the krone of bush developed correctly.
6. To five-year age annually replace laurels, and then do it once in three years. Pochvosmes make of the cespitose earth, coarse-grained sand and sheet humus (in proportion 2:1:1). Surely make drainage at the bottom of pot of beaten brick or crocks. Choose capacity for landing of laurels small, at change the new pot has to be more old on couple of centimeters.