I planted a group of cherry laurels 3 years ago, and each year the leaves yellow in early summer. It involves the entire shrub despite fungicides and pesticides. They recover, and after trimming, they ...

In winter, you can see what you might have done differently in the past gardening season. The garden looks bleak and desolate without greenery. Evergreen and hardy plants can make the garden appear ...

One way you can tell for how many centuries a plant name has been part of the common vernacular is to realize just how often that name has been used, and the widely disparate types of plants that a ...

Cherry Laurel is in flower at present. Its flowers aren't very showy; they are very small and numerous, are off-white in colour and are arranged in flower-heads that are held upright like ...

“Presidents’ Day” is upon us again, and that always makes me think of George Washington. For a botanist, the old legend about young George’s chopping down a cherry tree is rather memorable. So, in ...