I just put in three skip laurel bushes. I don’t want to kill them by crowding them, but I wanted to plant flowers around to make the empty area pretty. How close can I plant? What should I plant?
Ok, for some reason your text didn’t show up when I initially looked at your post and I missed you saying those are laurel bushes.
They tend to zone 6 to 9 although one variety (Portuguese I think) is 7 to 9. So I’m going to assume you are south of Kentucky.
Most laurels require trimming and a lot of it as they are hedge bushes. So the closer you plant other things, the more you will need to trim. My suggestion would be at least 3 to 4 feet out, at the minimum.
I’m in a lot colder clime so let look to see if anything in my garden would work for you. Irises and Lillie’s are great And bloom at different times.