In gardening columns that ask for comments, the poor cherry laurel receives more negatives than positives. It’s a bum rap in my book. Lots of trees and shrubs seed down – pecans, oaks, Chinese ...

The Carolina cherry laurel (Prunus caroliniana) is a small evergreen tree with lovely glossy green leaves that have a distinctive cherry fragrance when you crush them. It can be successfully grown ...

T he Carolina cherry tree (Prunus caroliniana), also known as the Carolina cherry laurel, is an evergreen shrub or small tree that hails from the southern United States. With glossy green leaves ...

Many varieties of prunus, including flowering cherries and plums, are deciduous, but the evergreen types are excellent for screening and hedging, ...

GARDENING GERRY DALY AS THE ubiquitous leyland cypress has begun to gain a bad reputation for being too vigorous, the evergreen that it largely supplanted has been making a comeback.

Q. We have always had cherry laurel trees in our yard but saw English laurel at a garden center. Do both of them grow here in the Delta? We need to grow a thick, tall hedge. A. As with many plants ...

All of the true cherry species belong to the genus Prunus. Cherry laurel," "Laurel cherry," Prunus caroliniana, our mystery plant, is an evergreen species (unlike sweet cherry, which is totally ...

Cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus) is generally considered a tough evergreen but its leaves can be affected by diseases such as powdery mildew, leaf spot fungi and bacterial shothole making ...

Pruning cherry prinsepia: Thin wood to allow in more sun and air. Leave lots of last year's wood for fruit production. It's OK to allow shrub edges to merge for a hedge.

This Laurel Hedging set features 10 plants designed to create a 6-foot hedge, offering ultimate privacy and a luscious green border to your outside space. For a limited time, it is on sale with a ...