Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up shot of the white blooms of a Carolina cherry tree - AnnaNel/Shutterstock The Carolina cherry tree (Prunus caroliniana), ...

Looking for an attractive, fast-growing tree that can also function as a screen or privacy fence? Cherry laurel trees (Prunus laurocerasus), sometimes referred to as English laurel, could be the ...

Fall is coming right up and all of those end-of-season projects are looming. If you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension ...

“Presidents’ Day” is upon us again, and that always makes me think of George Washington. For a botanist, the old legend about young George’s chopping down a cherry tree is rather memorable. So, in ...

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 ...

Question for Dan Gill: I have a cherry laurel tree in my yard that is full of ripe berries. Except for bird food, are the berries good for anything else? They are plump and quite bitter. — Howard ...

Q: I want to know the difference in the leaf smell of a bay laurel versus a Carolina cherry laurel. I am trying to see if what I bought was actually the right plant. I tried smelling the leaves and ...

Q: The stems of cherry laurel are turning white. It looks like mold or some sort of infection. Some leaves look OK while others have turned yellow or brown. Can I treat it? This actually isn’t fungal, ...

For to make chireseye, tak chiryes at þe feast of Seynt Iohn þe Baptist, & do awey þe stonys. — Hieatt, Constance B. and Sharon Butler. Curye on Inglish: English Culinary Manuscripts of the Fourteenth ...