Q: The main resident of our San Francisco backyard is a large bay laurel tree, perhaps 30 feet tall, with several trunks of smooth grayish bark.I know that there are two main kinds of bay trees in ...

Laurel lost an icon Friday, a tree so loved it had its own Facebook page and was nicknamed “Laurel’s Big Christmas Tree,” or simply, “The big tree.” A stately white pine that attracted ...

The Laurel Christmas tree: For nearly 50 years, it's been its own shining beacon on a hill, a 65-foot white pine adorned with thousands of twinkling lights, ...

The Carolina cherry laurel can either be planted as a lone tree or you can plant several in a row and prune them into a hedge. This cherry laurel will grow either in sun or shade, but should be ...

DEAR JOAN: We have a mature laurel tree, and for the last two months some animal has been chewing the ends of the branches and dropping pieces 6 to 8 inches long to the ground.