Plant outdoor bay laurel trees in average garden soil that drains well. The ideal pH range is 6 to 7 but laurel bay is very versatile and will tolerate a range from 4.5 to 8.3. as well as loamy ...

Worshippers of the god Apollo held the laurel tree to be sacred, as the location of the god’s oracular statements. In some traditions, the Pythia – the priestess who pronounced oracles at Delphi, one ...

Bay laurel trees struggle when temperatures are very hot and there is very low humidity. Particularly if it is windy. They are treated like desert trees, but they are not.

For years, a sleeper cell in our native bay laurel trees, a pathogen named Botryosphaeria, has been lying low, waiting to attack when the tree’s defenses are down. That time is now.

Some Laurel residents are calling for city employees to become better educated about trees and their maintenance after a 70-year-old, state-recognized weeping cherry tree was trimmed without the ...

This disease infects trees in the laurel family (Lauraceae). This non-native pest was first discovered in Georgia in 2002 and then in 2005, it made its way to Duval County Florida.