Most deciduous trees, shuddering in the wind and rain, have long ago shed their leaves. Gardens can look rather naked if there aren't a few evergreens in place to anchor them and provide some winter ...

I got an interesting question from a friend at the pool this last week about a potential magnolia that was having some unusual problems at home. As I have been taught for many years, sweet bay ...

Most people know magnolia as a small tree that bears pink flowers in early spring. That particular plant is a hybrid of two Asian species, but eight very different native magnolias grow in the eastern ...

Tear or crush a fresh bay leaf with your hands and smell it and you’ll quickly understand why it is the most widely used culinary herb. The origins of this evergreen bay laurel tree lie in the ...

GARDENING CAN BE challenging for me. (And yes, I’m using “challenging” euphemistically, as in, “The current political landscape is challenging.”) Sometimes, suddenly, it’s April — or, my God, May — ...

Laurus nobilis, known as bay, laurel bay or sweet bay, is easy to grow as a culinary/medicinal herb and a good landscape plant. Howard Garrett / Special Contributor Bringing your potted bay plant ...

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