spots on laurel?

[Carrieann]

Laurel is one of my favorite greens, I love the look and feel of the green. However, what I don't like is the spots they seem to get on the leaves. Anyone have any tricks to stop this?

By the way, speaking of greens, anyone elses italian rucus prices going up?

 

[Carrieann]

Am I the only one who gets these spots on laurel leaves?

 

[Rhonda]

We use Laurel for Memorial Day wreaths only. Mainly because of the "rust" and while it's blossoming it's a sticky mess. When we took over the shop in 1974, all the previous owners used was laurel - for everything. Didn't take long for me to find leather, emerald, and pittosporum. For a few years we greened funeral pieces with laurel but it got to the point that our wholesalers weren't keeping it very well so we only use it at Memorial.

 

[Carrieann]

We also use lots of other greens. I like to keep a variety of greens in the shop. Our staples are: leather, laurel, lemon, pit, emerald, tree fern, mertile, italian rucus (although the price just jumped way up)

from time to time we get in: springeri, bluperium, plumousius, and a few others I can't think of right now.

Laurel just happens to be one of my favs with the exception of the spots the leaves tend to get. I was hoping someone had a trick to prevent them.