Windowsill herb plants would seem a perfect antidote to winter’s visual and culinary blandness, except that such plants rarely do as well as billed. The ideal windowsill herb thrives despite dry air ...

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Native to Mediterranean regions, the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis) is a well-known culinary herb. Also known as bay leaf plant, it’s a tree or shrub that grows outdoors in warm, humid climates or ...

Q. Eight years ago I bought a young red bay laurel and planted it in my woodland garden in coastal Virginia. It thrived until this spring when some branches have shown signs of yellowing leaves. Is my ...

For years, a sleeper cell in our native bay laurel trees, a pathogen named Botryosphaeria, has been lying low, waiting to attack when the tree’s defenses are down. That time is now. Bay laurels have ...