Mountain laurel holds the garden spotlight on this Memorial Day weekend as the Pocono's premier plant. As the Pennsylvania state flower, mountain laurel is readily recognized by its beauty along the ...

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's annual Flower Show will bloom inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center on March 11, bringing with it hordes of horticultural geeks -- and the many more of us ...

Although mountain laurel is Pennsylvania’s state flower, I rarely see it growing in our area. In fact, locally I know of just one small shrub growing out of a rock formation above French Creek near ...

If you are looking for a spring-flowering shrub beyond the typical azaleas, consider native mountain laurel. “Mountain laurel is a beautiful native flowering shrub well used as an ornamental or shrub ...

(WHTM) – The Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) has been the Pennsylvania state flower since 1993. Mountain laurel is native to the eastern United States and is an evergreen shrub. It is also the ...

A: Plant native Texas mountain laurel (Sophora secundiflora) in full sun for good blooms and in excellent-draining soil for good health. Once established, it will be drought-tolerant. It does best in ...

CORNISH FLAT, N.H. Mountain laurel is a lovely evergreen shrub or small tree that produces lovely pink and white flowers in June. During a recent canoe trip on Squam Lake in Holderness, I was ...

Q: While driving in the mountains of Pennsylvania, I saw some beautiful pink flowering shrubs that someone told me were mountain-laurels. Will they grow here? Any information or help about them would ...

Bright splotches of white and pink are beginning to appear throughout the mountains of Pennsylvania, as the state flower – mountain laurel – begins to bloom. Under closer inspection that profusion of ...

All too often, we are inclined to think of flowering plants as something put on this earth to stimulate human sensibilities. Nothing, of course, could be less true. Plants produce flowers to attract ...