Bumblebees seem to like laurel flowers, so the tension on those spring ... interesting section about mountain laurel’s traditional use as a wood for spoons and tobacco pipes.

Pennsylvania's state flower is the mountain laurel.Gov. Gifford Pinchot chose it more than 90 years ago. The General Assembly passed two bills, each naming a different favorite shrub – mountain ...

Laurus nobilis, known as bay, laurel bay or sweet bay, is easy to grow as a culinary and medicinal herb and is a good landscape plant that should be used more often. It will do well year-round in ...

The bloom season for Pennsylvania’s official state flower has arrived, ushering in the calendar change from spring to summer. Roads through forested areas statewide are arriving in their annual ...

The laurel was a useful plant, part of a long tradition of using the gifts of the natural world to treat human ailments. The Romans had a variety of medicinal uses for the plant. They applied its ...

on a broad array of plant phenology observations, “the expected average date for mountain laurel flowers was during the first week of June,” he said. “Over the decades the date has become ...