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 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.

Mountain laurel, scientifically called Kalmia latifolia, blooms April through June, producing star-shaped buds in rounded clusters, followed by white to pink flowers.

Mountain laurel is one of the few broad-leaved plants native to Pennsylvania that do not lose their leaves in the winter. Its leaves are lance-shaped, leathery, glossy and dark green, and measure ...

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 ...