Kalmia latifolia 'Pristine' 25/1 Restock Few garden plants carry so

Few garden plants carry so much ceremony

and deer pass them by

Uncommon in cultivation outside the native south Texas

the parent plant having survived a North Carolina winter that bottomed out at minus nine

a hot late-season color that hummingbirds and pollinating insects work eagerly

Kalmia latifolia 'Pristine' 25/1 Restock Few garden plants carry so'Pristine' is a pure white flowered mountain laurel, a luminous departure from the pink and rose flushed forms of the wild species. The selection was discovered in Aiken County, South Carolina by the late Mrs. Ernestine Law and introduced to cultivation by Woodlanders, a distinctive regional expression of one of the most iconic broadleaf evergreens of the eastern United States. Where typical Kalmia latifolia opens blush toned, 'Pristine' unfurls in