What is the best time of year to prune a laurel tree?

The laurel tree is 15 years old, he is overtaking his space and growing over the garden fence into next door garden. Quite thick branches. we are in SW London.

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#1 Comment By GKH_Susan On 07/19/2020 @ 5:30 pm

Spring is the best time to prune. I've included info for mountain laurel and bay laurel and hopefully one of those is what you have. If it's cherry laurel, just search our site for it.

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