Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For years, a sleeper cell in our native bay laurel trees, a pathogen named Botryosphaeria, has been lying low, waiting to attack when the tree’s defenses are ...

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Find out how to grow your own bay leaves so you'll always have this flavorful herb on hand when you need it.

Q: Our sweet bay laurel trees face east and are watered by a drip irrigation system on a separate line for trees only. Obviously, these trees are not doing well. They were originally 24-inch boxed ...

One of the easiest culinary herbs to grow in the garden is the bay laurel tree, Laurus nobilis. Savvy cooks understand the importance of using bay leaves in soups, stews and sauces. Savvy gardeners ...

Q: I want to know the difference in the leaf smell of a bay laurel versus a Carolina cherry laurel. I am trying to see if what I bought was actually the right plant. I tried smelling the leaves and ...

About 30 feet beyond the last infected tree, across the trail that winds through LandPaths’ Riddell Preserve, Steve Ineich peered through the branches of a California bay laurel and called to the team ...