If you are looking for a spring-flowering shrub beyond the typical azaleas, consider native mountain laurel. “Mountain laurel is a beautiful native flowering shrub well used as an ornamental or shrub ...

No matter what your politics, you can’t fault the legislature’s choice of mountain laurel as the state flower back in 1907. It is native to Connecticut – abundant, beautiful, with large, long-lasting ...

Although mountain laurel is Pennsylvania’s state flower, I rarely see it growing in our area. In fact, locally I know of just one small shrub growing out of a rock formation above French Creek near ...

Hiker Rosanna Castillo, who hails from New York City and Delaware, shoots a photo of mountain laurel in bloom during a Saturday morning hike at Ricketts Glen State Park. Environmental education ...

Q: While driving in the mountains of Pennsylvania, I saw some beautiful pink flowering shrubs that someone told me were mountain-laurels. Will they grow here? Any information or help about them would ...

Leaves: alternate, simple, evergreen, elliptical, leathery, and have entire margins;¾ to 4 inches long, and 1 to 2 inches wide. Twigs: long, narrow, and glabrous ...

LEIGHTON — State flower commands attention Pennsylvania’s official flower is in bloom across the commonwealth, displaying its whites, pinks and reds against its evergreen leaves. While different ...

If any wildflower ushers in the calendar change from spring to summer, it is the beautiful mountain laurel. It’s blooming in great profusion now in Georgia‘s mountains, Piedmont and even a few Coastal ...

WELCOME TO TODAY’S GROWING GREEN. WE’RE AT THE HOME OF HENRY HOMEIER IN CORNISH. I’M JOINED BY STEPH CIESZYNSKI OF UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION AND STEPH, WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE ...

Question: My mountain laurel is looking bad. It has lost of its leaves, especially on the lower part of the tree (it's about 7 feet tall) and many of the remaining ones don't look good — they are ...