How to Use mountain laurel in a Sentence

mountain laurel

noun
  • Acidic soil and dappled shade keep mountain laurels blooming best.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • In spring, visitors may see mountain laurels in blossom.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026
  • If a mountain laurel bush is overgrown, cut it back in late winter or early spring to a few inches above ground level.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The land is home to many trees, mountain laurel, forest birds, bobcats, bear and deer and many other animals and plants.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026
  • Best of all, mountain laurels have a naturally compact and rounded form, which rarely needs pruning.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • Pair mountain laurels with other shade loving plants with similar needs, like Solomon's seal and native ferns.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • For a garden bed that looks full and colorful in any season, try pairing mountain laurels with some of these companion plants.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • Care Hardy from zones 5 through 9, mountain laurel grows wild from Maine to Florida.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • Aside from their colorful flowers, mountain laurels also keep gardens colorful with their dark green leaves, which stay on the plant all winter long.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • Christmas ferns and many other native ferns prefer the same basic growing conditions as mountain laurels.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • Blueberries also grow well in acidic soil and shorter, lowbush blueberries can be used as a groundcover around taller mountain laurel plants to give gardens a more layered look.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • For a more complex arrangement, try stacking dwarf azaleas in front of taller mountain laurels and select plants with coordinating flower colors.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • Despite the colder weather, winter is a great time to visit—and even a chance to catch some snow and ski—while spring offers a landscape blooming with azaleas, mountain laurels, and wildflowers.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
  • Native to eastern North America, wild mountain laurel plants grow en masse along woodland margins, rivers and streambanks, and sloping hillsides.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • After that, mountain laurels are relatively drought-tolerant and only need to be watered during extended periods of dry weather.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • Ballato identifies mountain laurel as a relatively deer-resistant winter plant.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Sewanee’s summer wildflowers include harbinger-of-spring, bloodroot, great white trillium, pink lady’s slippers, and mountain laurel.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Growing between 4 and 15-feet tall, mountain laurel plants make ideal foundation shrubs; however, dwarf varieties, like ‘Elf’ and ‘Tinkerbell,’ can also be kept in roomy and well-draining pots.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 13 June 2026
  • The seven-mile Torreya Challenge Loop steadily climbs and dips, meandering over creeks, an old forest road, and blackberry brambles, following a ridge where mountain laurels bloom in the spring and visitors can find the steepest incline in the park.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The seven-mile Torreya Challenge Loop steadily climbs and dips, meandering over creeks, an old forest road, and blackberry brambles, following a ridge where mountain laurels bloom in the spring, and visitors can find the steepest incline in the park.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026

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