Adaptable and easy to grow, California bay laurel is native to the West Coast and the only tree of the Lauraceae family found in the western United States. It grows best in full sun to partial shade ...

Q: Our sweet bay laurel trees face east and are watered by a drip irrigation system on a separate line for trees only. Obviously, these trees are not doing well. They were originally 24-inch boxed ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

One of the easiest culinary herbs to grow in the garden is the bay laurel tree, Laurus nobilis. Savvy cooks understand the importance of using bay leaves in soups, stews and sauces. Savvy gardeners ...