Windowsill herb plants would seem a perfect antidote to winter’s visual and culinary blandness, except that such plants rarely do as well as billed. The ideal windowsill herb thrives despite dry air ...

Q. Eight years ago I bought a young red bay laurel and planted it in my woodland garden in coastal Virginia. It thrived until this spring when some branches have shown signs of yellowing leaves. Is my ...

Bay laurel is an evergreen plant, either as a shrub or tree, renowned for its aromatic leaves commonly used in cooking. Its pointed, oval-shaped leaves are deep green, glossy, and have a leathery feel ...

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 ...

Name: The Saratoga Bay Laurel tree is a tasteful tree — to the eye, nose, and mouth. An aromatic evergreen grew as a large shrub or small tree, Laurus nobilis ‘Saratoga’ can be a great addition to ...

Bay laurel is more than a leaf that goes into your cooking pot. This culinary herb is native to the Mediterranean region, as well as the Canary Islands and Azores. Before gaining its primary use as a ...

The contents of a bin of flour should not move. Small black bugs should not gather at the bottom of a box of cereal. And though they are nearly identical to rice grains, small maggots may not take up ...

Q: The main resident of our San Francisco backyard is a large bay laurel tree, perhaps 30 feet tall, with several trunks of smooth grayish bark. I know that there are two main kinds of bay trees in ...