How to Use mountain laurel in a Sentence

mountain laurel

noun

• The woods are full of mountain laurel and ferns growing on the sides of the slope.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 21 June 2019
• Texas mountain laurel foliage seemed to do all right, but the bloom stalks look fried.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2021
• My mountain laurel’s leaves turned brown in a matter of weeks.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Texas mountain laurel blooms at the same time as redbud.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• The trail continues to wind through the preserve passing groves of mountain laurel to the top of the Baldwin Brook ravine.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 5 May 2018
• At the end, take the other fork of Benson Mountain Trail through mountain laurel.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
• Texas mountain laurel is native to hot, sunny hillsides in arid parts of the state.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Nov. 2021
• The deer do not usually eat Texas mountain laurel, but the bucks do sometimes injure the plant by rubbing their antlers on the stems.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 7 May 2020
• The hike will be about two miles, featuring abundant mountain laurel in bloom.
  — courant.com, 4 June 2021
• His garden includes a woodland walk, mountain laurel and a half acre pond.
  — courant.com, 14 May 2021
• Test Garden Tip: As beautiful as mountain laurel is, all parts of the plant are poisonous, so keep children and pets away from the plant.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• Test Garden Tip: As beautiful as mountain laurel is, all parts of the plant are poisonous, so keep children and pets away from the plant.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• While our native mountain laurel — the plain species — is deer resistant, that doesn’t always extend to hybrids of the species.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2018
• In late spring and early summer, mountain laurel is covered in showy clusters of pink, red, or white flowers.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
• Later in the season they'll be joined by azaleas, rhododendrons, mountain laurel, and blooms of every shade in the Rose Garden.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 17 Mar. 2021
• Finally, his red cellphone, sheathed in its black case, was discovered on a hill choked with mountain laurel.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• The hardwood canopy is at its most lush, and while spring might be peak wildflower season, June has its own floral display as mountain laurel blooms white.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2020
• Later in the spring, azaleas also bloom, along with rhododendrons and mountain laurel.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2022
• Deer tend not to eat Texas mountain laurel, vinca, viburnum, thyrallis, lantana, salvia, milkweed, yucca, four-o-clock and mint marigold, to name a few.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Nov. 2021
• There’s a pretty easy 2.5 mile loop trail that that takes you through big sharp rocky peaks, dense forest, walls of azalea and mountain laurel, and over a high-elevation, crystal clear stream.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2018
• In this case — and for the other arrangements — thicker stems like mountain laurel and dill flower go first to help create the initial structure for the arrangement, which can then be filled in with the thinner stems like dill, chamomile or sage.
  — Rachel Swalin, ELLE Decor, 21 June 2017
• In the tradition of the landscape gardens of the eighteenth century without the formality, this garden offers a woodland walk with ferns, moss, loads of mountain laurel and a half acre pond.
  — courant.com, 14 May 2021
• But there was lots of pruning and brush cutting to take advantage of a brush pick-up recently, and that may have given more easy access to the Texas mountain laurel and esperanza that were wounded.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• The most noticeable blooms in my neighborhood are on Texas mountain laurel and redbud, but the cemetery iris, bluebonnets, larkspur and rain lilies are also blooming.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Apr. 2022
• Three-fifths of the surrounding county was state or federal forest, thick with mountain laurel and, in warmer months, teeming with mushrooms, ramps, ginseng, goldenseal, and sassafras.
  — Stephen Kurczy, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
• Each of the seven suites are named after trees that grow on the property — pomegranate, cypress, magnolia, mountain laurel, climbing rose and night jasmine.
  — Anna Mazurek, Chron, 22 July 2022
• Mireles’ blind will include larger-than-life depictions of the park’s greenery, including Texas mountain laurel and prickly pear.
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• It is composed of thousands of pieces of colorful cut glass that together make a unified image of the Patuxent River, local wildlife, a mill wheel, mountain laurel bushes and a river goddess.
  — Mary Schneidau Sullivan, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
• Visitors can extend their journey farther west through a pretty impressive mountain laurel grove, which must be spectacular when the state flower is in bloom.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Teddy Bear magnolias and Texas mountain laurels might figure into a planting somehow.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024