Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana prophouse-winter-2027 borealis rewards the patient gardener

borealis rewards the patient gardener with decades of evergreen presence

never-opening Turk's cap shape

or as an evergreen screen in a moist

gray-green leaves rimmed in irregular cream

inkberry 'Leucocarpa' works as a low informal hedge

Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana prophouse-winter-2027 borealis rewards the patient gardenerSheep laurel belongs to the heath family (Ericaceae), kin to the rhododendrons, blueberries, and pieris, and shares that family's love of cool, sour, peaty ground. The genus name honors Pehr Kalm, the Finnish Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus who traveled the eastern colonies in the 1740s and sent plants and seed back to Uppsala; Linnaeus returned the compliment by fixing his pupil's name to this handsome American genus. The species epithet