Great foe stews and soups. Could not find plant at nurseries so ordered on liine.

5/29/23
Due to medical issues I didn't transplant it until today. A week or two after my initial review I moved the pot out onto our south-facing elevated deck, put it on the drip system, and basically forgot about it. The end of summer is hot, winter is very wet, and we had 8" of snow in late February, followed by two more weeks of intermittent snow. The plant(s) handled it all with aplomb, lost no leaves, and are growing heartily.
During the transplanting I discovered that what I had was two laurel plants, one with sawtooth-edged leaves, the other with smooth-edged leaves. Laurel nobilis (true bay) can have either kind of leaf according to Sunset's Western Garden Book and because the plants appeared, until transplanting, to be one plant, I will assume that both are true bay.
8/11/22
I hate 4- and 5-star reviews from people who write reviews the day their order arrived. What do they usually know about how well the item works or how long it lasts?
That warning given, all I will say at this time is that the plant arrived well packaged, about 4" tall, full, its soil still damp, although not moist, and healthy-looking "” no wilted, bent, or torn leaves.
I put the plant into a container of water to soak for about 12 hours, drained the container, and have left it, temporarily, by a window in a room on the north side of the house. I will update this review with information about root structure when I transplant this shrub/tree, in a week or so, and transfer it to a sunnier location for culinary purposes.

I'm usually a very skeptical person who tends to assume that when a seller has such rave reviews, it might be their employees shilling or something like that, so I wasn't expecting much when I ordered my plant. Boy was I surprised!!

Not only the plant is wonderful, but it was the BEST packaging I've ever seen for a plant, ever. It was so perfect that when I pulled it out of the box, it looked as happy and refreshed as a plant that you just picked up at a nursery, and not at all like a plant that has spent time traveling in the mail.

I've bought plants shipped by other places before, and they usually arrive in a variety of miserable states, but this plant looked like it had just been in its pot in my garden all this time, and not traveling around. I was amazed! No messy soil everywhere, no broken branches, no crushed leaves, not a single harm to the plant. Everything was perfect, and that was only possible thanks to their awesome packaging.

It's also delicious! I have it sitting by the window in my kitchen, and have already made three different dishes using the leaves. :)

I'll happily order more plants from them, if they're all of such quality and shipped as well!!

I love my new plant, but was a little disappointed in he size. I use a lot in my cooking, it's to small to be harvesting now. I lost the two I had due to the extreme cold weather we got this winter in North Texas.
Lorie B.
Ft Worth, TX

I'm very pleased with this purchase, it took a while to get here but I suppose it had to do with the preparation due shipping a good plant. There are actually 2 cuttings in this pot I received, I'm going to put one in a pot and one in the soil.