Kalmia latifolia 'Croft Carpet' Pollinator and limb up the lower

and limb up the lower branches with age to reveal the trunks

all-season planting

shaped like the slender bill of a crane

or a border where autumn needs something to say for itself

dense female shrub

Kalmia latifolia 'Croft Carpet' Pollinator and limb up the lowerMost mountain laurels are shrubs with presence, upright and woody and faintly aristocratic. 'Croft Carpet' flips the script. This rare, prostrate selection of Kalmia latifolia stays low and spreads into a dense evergreen mat, delivering the understory finish that designers chase in shade gardens: lush, deliberate, and quietly polished. A specimen at the JC Raulston Arboretum measured only about one foot tall while spreading many times as wide. In late