Q: I found your blog, Xtremehorticulture of the Desert, and am hoping you can tell me if my tree is a bay laurel. I looked at pictures of Carolina cherry trees that look similar. This tree has ...

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— Hieatt, Constance B. and Sharon Butler. Curye on Inglish: English Culinary Manuscripts of the 14th-century (Including the Forme of Cury). New York: for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford ...

Cherry laurel, Prunus caroliniana, is a small tree that is native to the moist woodlands of East Texas. Recently Bill and I enjoyed a stroll around Bob Flournoy’s lovely wooded landscape. He has ...

Q: Last year my flowering cherries contracted some sort of pest creating holes in the leaves. Some trees along our street were practically bare by August. Is there anything I can do to save them? A: ...

Delicious, fragrant bay leaves come from the bay laurel, a perennial shrub or tree with pale yellow flowers and black fruit, attractive olive-to-reddish bark, and dark leathery leaves. Bay leaves are ...

CAN any of your readers tell me of what use to the plants are the small spots—glands I suppose—on the back of the laurel-leaf near the bottom of the rib? Sometimes there are two pairs, sometimes one; ...