The gardening season has started and if you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shrubs are key pieces of any garden design and can offer both beauty and structure to a space. Coming in a plethora of shapes, ...

This Oct. 14, 2025, image provided by Jessica Damiano shows a shovel plunged into soil around a cherry laurel shrub. Gardeners can transplant spring- and early summer-blooming plants like cherry ...

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 ...

WELCOME TO TODAY’S GROWING GREEN. WE’RE AT THE HOME OF HENRY HOMEIER IN CORNISH. I’M JOINED BY STEPH CIESZYNSKI OF UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION AND STEPH, WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE ...

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 ...

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 ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. An evergreen flowering ...