Kalmia latifolia 'Croft Carpet' Pollinator carrying somewhat fragrant terminal racemes

carrying somewhat fragrant terminal racemes of white flowers in summer

or a border where autumn needs something to say for itself

and other sun-loving natives round out the planting

Ilex myrtifolia

Native to the eastern United States

Kalmia latifolia 'Croft Carpet' Pollinator carrying somewhat fragrant terminal racemesMost 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