Mountain laurel has many fine features: it will grow in sun or shade, the leaves are shiny and bright, and the delicate flowers are prolific -- usually. What I noticed as I passed through forests of ...

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 feet ...

With its fine fibrous root system, mountain laurel is easy to transplant. It is also a long-lived plant, with some plants reported to have 100 annual rings (indicating its age as 100 years ...

A: I agree with you: few plants are more gorgeous in spring than the star-shaped flower buds forming on the spectacular broad-leafed evergreen Pennsylvania native, mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia).

While our native mountain laurel — the plain species — is deer ... I’d like to purchase my landscape plants accordingly. Microclimates are too small and variable to map.

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 ...

It may be surprising to hear then that the Harvard Gazette has called Mountain Laurel “one of the fastest-moving plants on the globe.” This is due to the plant’s very unique way of dispersing pollen.