A little off topic, but just curious if anyone has any info. I bought a sweet bay or bay laurel plant a few years back (I believe at a local garden center). I had been looking for a while and was so happy to find it.
It grew slowly over the first few years, but I always clipped a few leaves when I was making soups or stews and sometimes in my pasta sauce.
It lives on our back patio in the summer, comes into the enclosed porch in the fall, and into our sunny diningroom in the winter. Like I said, always a slow grower...until this year! It has a new branch that has taken off over the winter and is twice as large as the rest of the plant, and the leaves on that branch are very large!
So just wondering if this is "normal". I've never seen bay leaves that large. I read online that there are several plants out there that "look similar to bay", but are not edible and, in fact, some are poisonous! Now, of course, I've used occasionally in soups and stews and pasta sauce, never got sick, but was just curious if anybody knows if what I've got is true bay.
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