Kalmia latifolia 26/4 Restock rounded crown to develop

rounded crown to develop

hung with dangling tubular blooms in coral-pink to deep red

near a patio

or in the spray zone of a spring-fed creek

Kalmia latifolia 26/4 Restock rounded crown to developMountain laurel is the aristocrat of the American heath family (Ericaceae), a broadleaf evergreen native from southern Maine to the Florida panhandle and west toward Indiana and Louisiana, most at home on the acid, rocky slopes of the Appalachians. Linnaeus named the genus Kalmia for his student Pehr Kalm, the Finnish Swedish naturalist who botanized the eastern colonies in the 1740s, and the species epithet latifolia means broad leaved. To gardeners