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 ...

This slow-growing tree can be grown indoors ... make sure the location has good drainage, as laurel tolerates many soil types, but not poor drainage. This plant also dislikes strong winds ...

There are two primary types of culinary bay leaves — Turkish and Californian. Turkish bay leaves come from the bay laurel tree (also called true laurel and sweet laurel) that is native to the ...

With a mature camphor laurel tree producing more than 100,000 seeds per year, the spread across the landscape is hard to control when numerous bird species take a fancy to the seeds. "People ...