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 ...

Close up shot of the white blooms of a Carolina cherry tree - AnnaNel/Shutterstock The Carolina cherry tree (Prunus caroliniana), also known as the Carolina cherry laurel, is an evergreen shrub or ...

Q: The stems of cherry laurel are turning white. It looks like mold or some sort of infection. Some leaves look OK while others have turned yellow or brown. Can I treat it? This actually isn’t fungal, ...

Would inkberry be a good replacement for my cherry laurel that is always covered with white scale insects? Inkberry is a native evergreen holly and makes a good alternative for problematic cherry ...

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 ...

Before I was born, way back in 1950, one of my relatives by marriage who wasn’t asked to join the Junior League built the biggest house in town. An intuitive designer, she understood the concept of ...

“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 ...