Are these mountain laurel seedlings (photos 1-6) or just weeds? They popped up over the last few weeks and look so much like mountain laurel, but I read they don’t self seed easily like this.
Photo 7 is current pic of my mountain laurel that is planted about 4-5 feet away from where these seedlings are popping up. About to bloom, yay!
Photo 8 is after it was first planted in April 2025. It’s probably grown about 6-8 inches in less than a year. I know others were asking about planting them. Mine’s been super low maintenance and found reasonably priced at the Wildflower Center native plant sale last spring.
by Eveyfox1
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Very nice. Try to transplant them if you can. The seeds are hard to germinate
Looks like it to me. Super cool! If you need to transplant them do it when they are young. They get a bit harder as they mature.
Lucky!
I’ve tried germinating seeds multiple times but to no avail.
WOW!!! if you don’t have any plans for them or anyone you want to give them to I would love to take one off your hands!
Pretty cool isn’t it? Probably half of the evergreen things in our garden are volunteers – Yaupons, Mountain Laurels, and Cherry Laurels mostly.
Do you have an eves necklace around? Texas mountain laurel has alternate leaves which I don’t see on pic #1
Is your lobster too buttery too?!
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I have some heavy tree cover in the back yard , but really want to know how to tell if I get enough sun for these to grow
Some of these are eves necklace [https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=staf4](https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=staf4)
For what its worth texas mountain laurel is generally going to have a >1 foot long tap root after the first year so transplant is high risk