Windowsill herb plants would seem a perfect antidote to winter’s visual and culinary blandness, except that such plants rarely do as well as billed. The ideal windowsill herb thrives despite dry air ...

Native to Mediterranean regions, the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis) is a well-known culinary herb. Also known as bay leaf plant, it’s a tree or shrub that grows outdoors in warm, humid climates or ...

Bay laurel is more than a leaf that goes into your cooking pot. This culinary herb is native to the Mediterranean region, as well as the Canary Islands and Azores. Before gaining its primary use as a ...

My earliest memory of bay comes not from the garden, but the kitchen. My mother always dropped a single dried bay leaf in her simmering pot of spaghetti sauce made from a recipe handed down from ...

As I watered the plant loft in the shop this past week, I surveyed the plants that looked a little limp from the cold temperatures. This closed-in second-floor porch heats up in day with lots of solar ...

Now that there is a bit of a chill in the air at night we have to begin thinking about bringing some plants in for winter. It is time to create a windowsill garden. I like to grow geraniums, violets, ...

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. Bay laurels have ...

Q: I would like to replace a huge mulberry tree in my front yard; roots are very invasive, but the shade is wonderful. We have a west-facing home. I would like to replace it with a small bay laurel ...

One way you can tell for how many centuries a plant name has been part of the common vernacular is to realize just how often that name has been used, and the widely disparate types of plants that a ...