Q. We have always had cherry laurel trees in our yard but saw English laurel at a garden center. Do both of them grow here in the Delta? We need to grow a thick, tall hedge. A. As with many plants ...

English laurel, a broad leaf evergreen shrub, can grow up to 3 feet per year to 20 feet high and wide. It is best pruned on all sides two times per year.

Great Plant Pick: Prunus laurocerasus ‘Mount Vernon,’ dwarf English laurel Plant “Mount Vernon” as a low informal bed border or small hedge, or as a groundcover under trees and large ...

Speaking of mountain laurel, the name laurel is perhaps used for more different types of plants than any other. In fact, “laurel” can refer to as many as 40 different plants.

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 ...

California bay leaves can be a bit longer, at 3 to 5 inches, than those of bay laurel, which are 2 to 4 inches, but there is enough variability that a particular tree could be somewhere in between.