Kalmia: Mountain Laurel and Releated Species By Richard A. Jaynes, Timber Press, hardcover, $34.95, 360 pp.; available by mail from Timber Press, 133 SW Second Ave., Suite 450, Portland, OR 97204-3… ...

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 ...

When the flowers fade, deadheading them (removing them prior to seedset) will make the plant happy. With its fine fibrous root system, mountain laurel is easy to transplant.

Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) has been Pennsylvania’s official state flower since 1933, when Governor Gifford Pinchot signed into law one of two competing bills. The Pennsylvania General ...

In looking for information on the flower structure of Kalmia, I discovered something that I hadn’t know before, which is that all parts of mountain laurel are toxic.

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's annual Flower Show will bloom inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center on March 11, bringing with it hordes of horticultural geeks -- and the many more of ...

When Andy and Ginnie Whittington moved into their Laurel Park home three years ago, they were tempted to tear down the snarly, tangled 25-foot cactus in their side yard. But the former owner convin… ...