Although there are many gorgeous varieties, this evergreen relative of azaleas is often overlooked when choosing flowering shrubs. Plant Hardinessĭespite the continuing interest in native plants for gardens, one plant, the mountain laurel, remains strangely under-used. Pests and diseases are rare, and the only work needed is removing the spent flower heads, to encourage flowering the next year. Established plants have limited drought resistance, but regular moisture is best. Grow it in moist, well-drained soil that is rich and slightly acidic.
MINUET MOUNTAIN LAUREL FULL
Partial shade, or light full shade are best for the Nipmuck Mountain Laurel.
Perfect in planters if your garden soil isn’t suitable. Easily grown in rich, moist, well-drained soil. Smothered in pink flowers with red markings through June. Red buds in late winter and spring are large and attractive. Rounded evergreen bush with attractive leathery foliage. Grow this plant around your home, in beds, beneath trees, in woodland areas or in planters and pots. When they open in June the flowers are pale pink with red markings inside them. The flowers are carried in large clusters at the ends of all the branches, showing as bright red buds from late winter and through spring. The long leaves are leathery and dark green, making an attractive shrub year-round. The Nipmuck Mountain Laurel is a rounded evergreen shrub, reaching 4 to 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide in about 10 years. We've gotta protect good ole' Mother Nature, after all. While we wish we could serve everyone, it's for the safety of native species and helps prevent the spread of invasive disease & pests. The short & sweet answer is: "United States Department of Agriculture Restrictions." Every state has their own unique USDA restrictions on which plants they allow to come into their state. You will receive email notifications along the way on the progress of your order, as well as tracking information to track your plants all the way to their new home! Why are some states excluded from shipping? Orders typically ship out within 2 business days. How does the delivery process work?Īll of our orders ship via FedEx Ground! Once your order is placed online, our magic elves get right to work picking, staging, boxing and shipping your trees. You'll find we carry young 1-gallons, up to more mature 7-gallons ranging anywhere from 6 inches to 6ft. While the industry-standard terminology is to call the sizes "Gallon Containers", that doesn't exactly translate to the traditional liquid "gallon" size we think of. Nursery containers come in a variety of different sizes, and old-school nursery slang has stuck. Specific epithet means broad-leaved.All tree, and nothin' but the tree! We measure from the top of the soil to the top of the tree the height of the container or the root system is never included in our measurements. Genus name honors Pehr Kalm (1715-1779), Finnish pupil of Linnaeus, who was sent by the Swedish government in 1748 to report on the natural resources of North America. Linnaeus named the genus herein after Swedish botanist Peter Kalm (1716-1779) who explored plant life in parts of eastern North America from 1747 to 1751. Mountain laurel has acquired a number of different common names over time including ivy bush, spoonwood, calico bush and American laurel. Kalmia latifolia is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. All parts of this plant are toxic if ingested. Elliptic, alternate, leathery, glossy evergreen leaves (to 5” long) are dark green above and yellow green beneath and reminiscent to the leaves of rhododendrons. If not deadheaded, flowers give way to non-showy brown fruits (3/16” dehiscent capsules) that persist into winter. 
Each flower (to 1” across) is cup shaped with five sides and ranges in color from rose to white with purple markings inside.
Flowers appear in terminal clusters (corymbs to 6” across), typically covering the shrub in late May-June for several weeks with an often exceptional bloom. Notwithstanding its usual shrub habit, mountain laurel will rarely grow as a small tree (particularly on slopes in the Appalachian Mountains) to as much as 30’ tall. It typically grows as a dense rounded shrub to 5-15’ tall, opening up and developing gnarly branches with age. It is noted for its excellent spring flowers and quality year round foliage. Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel, is a gnarled, multi-stemmed, broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree that is native to Eastern North America (New England south to the southern Indiana, Louisiana and the Florida panhandle) where it is found in a variety of habitats including open rocky or sandy woods, cool meadows, balds, mountain slopes and woodland margins.
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