Mountain laurel is a lovely evergreen shrub or small tree that produces lovely pink and white flowers in June. During a recent canoe trip on Squam Lake in Holderness, I was surprised and delighted … ...

In his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, horticulturalist and professor of horticulture Michael Dirr comments that as far as landscape value goes, mountain laurel is an “Excellent broadleaf ...

Mountain laurel is a lovely evergreen shrub or small tree that produces lovely pink and white flowers in June. During a recent canoe trip on Squam Lake in Holderness, I was surprised and delighted to ...

Mountain laurel is native to eastern North America and typically found in a variety of forest types, including spruce-fir, northern hardwood, mixed hardwood, ... Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey 1975 ...

Mountain laurel holds the garden spotlight on this Memorial Day weekend as the Pocono's premier plant. ... to the more robust varieties with a height and width of 15 feet.

Mountain laurel is a shrub that in the wild often is found in large colonies. Plants in the woods are often 6 or 8 feet high and can get considerably bigger than that.

Mountain Laurel have been admired and cultivated as an ornamental since 1740, when American naturalist John Bartram sent plants to England. Richard Jayne is also important in the plant's history.

Old plants grown in the shade have great sculptural features -- they are twisted and lanky, with ridged and furrowed bark. Dick Jaynes is probably the foremost breeder of mountain laurel, having ...