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 ...

There's a cherry laurel tree native to the U.S. that will look great in your backyard and attract robins. Here's why birds love this particular species.

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, a symbol of the simple joys of the ...

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 ...

Worshippers of the god Apollo held the laurel tree to be sacred, as the location of the god’s oracular statements. In some traditions, the Pythia – the priestess who pronounced oracles at Delphi, one ...

But the Laurel-Leaf Cocculus, a native of South Japan and the Himalayas, goes its own way, regardless of its surroundings. This dependable plant looks fresh and shiny green, with a dark and dense ...