Snow banks help plants thrive in the mountains, providing water and nutrients for soil. But as climate change warms the ...

Certain trees, like figs, crape myrtles, calamondins, ginkgos, and Japanese maples, can thrive when planted in pots rather ...

If stalk-eyed flies thrive along with skunk cabbage in the Berkshires, we might see them feeding on the remains of skunk cabbage blossoms, fungi and unseen bacteria which they scavenge from decaying ...

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 ...

While different regions are holding events to celebrate the beauty of the mountain laurel, seeing the flowering shrub is as simple as a walk in the woods or a leisurely drive along area roads.

On May 17, the Pisgah Civitan Club hosted its third annual Mountain Laurel Arts and Music Festival at the Pisgah Civitan Park. Visitors to the festival rubbed elbows with local artists, saw classic ...

On May 17 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., the Pisgah Civitan Club will host its third annual Mountain Laurel Arts and Music Festival at the Pisgah Civitan Park, home of the Pisgah Gorge. The festival will ...

This family of plants includes some of the most common and best-known shrubs, such as huckleberries, blueberries, azaleas, cranberries and rhododendron. Mountain laurel varies in height from 4 ...

We have lots of native shrubs, such as American holly, mountain laurel or viburnum, that would make a more biodiverse privacy screen. Please promote our native plants, not invasive plants.