Instead of installing a fence, you may consider a "natural" privacy barrier in the form of these plants, which are ready to ...

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, ...

I planted a group of cherry laurels 3 years ago, and each year the leaves yellow in early summer. It involves the entire shrub despite fungicides and pesticides. They recover, and after trimming, they ...

Cherry Laurel is in flower at present. Its flowers aren't very showy; they are very small and numerous, are off-white in colour and are arranged in flower-heads that are held upright like ...

Some people like their gardens to be pretty, while others prefer a little privacy. And if you want both? This quick-growing ...

Just a couple of weeks ago when Santa Claus opened the front door to the North Pole to start on his annual rounds, he unleashed a slug of unconscionably cold air, the likes of which we haven’t seen in ...

Would inkberry be a good replacement for my cherry laurel that is always covered with white scale insects? Inkberry is a native evergreen holly and makes a good alternative for problematic cherry ...

IN NATURE (vol. viii., p. 245) Mr. Thiselton Dyer, in answer to a correspondent, says that he knows of no explanation? of the purpose or origin of the nectariferous glands on the back of the leaf of ...

“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 ...

PATIENCE is a virtue – especially when it comes to gardening. Growing things takes time – even annuals can take months to come to maturity, while at the other end of the scale it can take decades for ...