If you are looking for a spring-flowering shrub beyond the typical azaleas, consider native mountain laurel. “Mountain laurel is a beautiful native flowering shrub well used as an ornamental or shrub ...

Mountain Laurel is one of the loveliest evergreen shrubs to grow in our area. They are native to the Eastern U.S. and are particularly prolific in the mountains, foothills and Eastern Seaboard. Its ...

CORNISH FLAT, N.H. 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 ...

Q: While driving in the mountains of Pennsylvania, I saw some beautiful pink flowering shrubs that someone told me were mountain-laurels. Will they grow here? Any information or help about them would ...

Pennsylvania's state flower is the mountain laurel.Gov. Gifford Pinchot chose it more than 90 years ago. The General Assembly passed two bills, each naming a different favorite shrub – mountain laurel ...

No matter what your politics, you can’t fault the legislature’s choice of mountain laurel as the state flower back in 1907. It is native to Connecticut – abundant, beautiful, with large, long-lasting ...

LEIGHTON — State flower commands attention Pennsylvania’s official flower is in bloom across the commonwealth, displaying its whites, pinks and reds against its evergreen leaves. While different ...

Question: Two questions: 1. My mountain laurel (10 yrs old) has never had blooms. Is this a gender plant issue? 2. I have been seeking a groundcover that grows in shade and will take foot (dog) ...

Leaves: alternate, simple, evergreen, elliptical, leathery, and have entire margins;¾ to 4 inches long, and 1 to 2 inches wide. Twigs: long, narrow, and glabrous ...