Kalmia latifolia x hirsuta Allen Bush and let the early pink

and let the early pink bloom feed the first bees of the season

yellow-green buds open to broad white blooms

a wet meadow

'Pale Yellow' carries all the virtues of the Carolina jessamine in a gentler key: the same sweet fragrance

compact performance

Kalmia latifolia x hirsuta Allen Bush and let the early pinkThis seemingly unlikely hybrid crosses the familiar mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) with the diminutive, far less known sandhill laurel (Kalmia hirsuta) of the Deep South, two species that could hardly look more different. The cross was probably first made by the late, great Alabama nurseryman Tom Dodd, Jr., and further investigated by the Connecticut Kalmia expert Dr. Richard Jaynes, whose lifetime of work did more than anyone's to bring the genus