Laurels with brown tips

[Nichola2310]

8 weeks ago we had a landscape company come and plant Portugal laurels around the perimeter of our house. The initial instruction was to water once a day on dry days. I'm in N Ireland where it has been an extremely wet few weeks, loads of rain, but on a day with no rain we watered them.

They checked them a few weeks later and said 15ish needed replaced but only replaced 8 a weeks later.

They came to check them yesterday, and spoke to us like we were idiots. They are saying that none of the plants need replaced and that they should be watered twice a day regardless of whether it rains or not.

So yesterday I when around and cut off all the brown tips and have started to water twice a day, which as we have so many, takes 2 hours. Anyone I've spoken to says watering twice a day is insane.

Can anyone advise?

Also some of the ones that I cut yesterday had brown tips again this morning, does that mean I didn't cut enough off?

How deep is the gravel and how many plants do you have? It's possible the watering just isn't penetrating sufficiently. Don't trim the brown bits off as that can stress the plants. I'd be concerned if they are getting plenty of water that there's something else going on like a fungal disease.

The stones are pretty shallow so I do think the water is getting through.

We probably have around 80 of them.

I've just finished watering them and any that I cut yesterday are brown at the tip again.

I have laurels all the way around my property for privacy and if that happens what’s happened to yours is they are dying/dead
I’d request a refund x

Wherever you cut green stuff it is going to die back a bit further. So by repeatedly cutting the brown tips far enough back to remove them completely, you are encouraging more and more of the branch to die.

If you have 80 plants to water it will take a long time, it's bound to. Stop cutting bits off them and water them well. Maybe do one section in the morning and another in the evening.

A local garden centre has now told me to water them once a week, versus the landscaper saying twice a day!

Everyone except the landscaper is in agreement that I shouldn't cut any more.

Thanks everyone

I have laurel hedging.
One wall isn't doing well at all. It definitely needs more water than it's getting. I'm in Dublin.,

@LadyEloise how often do you water yours?

Not enough. Every now and then I remember

I would worry that they had left air in at the roots actually.