If you're among those enchanted by this plant, I’ll guide you through how to grow a bay tree and make the most of its leaves.

Delicious, fragrant bay leaves come from the bay laurel, a perennial shrub or tree with pale yellow flowers and black fruit, attractive olive-to-reddish bark, and dark leathery leaves. Bay leaves ...

TO MANY people they’re little more than aromatic leaves, yet bay leaves have a mighty powerful sacred past. Read the Paper Tributes. Rewards. ... Bay tree: How to grow your own bay leaves ...

You've probably made several recipes that call for bay leaves (especially if you cook soup regularly), but did you know that you can actually grow your own at home? A bay laurel (Laurus nobilis ...

The scale insects feed on the sugary sap of the tree and excrete a sweet liquid called honeydew. The sooty mold fungus is growing on the honeydew — not attacking or hurting the bay tree.