The blossoms of mountain laurel form five-sided, cuplike blooms that grow in clusters. The colors can range from white to blush to red and are often two-toned, with interesting markings throughout the blossom.

A wonderful North American Native evergreen flowering shrub, the 'Ostbo Red' Mountain Laurel is a semi-dwarf selection to maybe 4 to 6 feet tall and wide making it a perfect fit for smaller garden spaces.

An exciting new selection of mountain laurel that showcases intense red flower buds backed by deep green, glossy foliage. The flower buds develop approximately a week later than the straight species and never fully open.

May 9, 2024 · Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) is a flowering broadleaf evergreen shrub with a multistemmed growth habit. It has beautiful spring blooms, and its elliptical, glossy deep-green leaves (resembling those of rhododendrons) and gnarled stems make it attractive in all seasons.

Mountain Laurel is ideal for shady gardens, and it also thrives in full sun if the soil is moist. Smaller varieties are perfect along the edges of beds, and larger ones as background shrubs in your borders.

Ostbo Red Mountain Laurel features showy clusters of rose cup-shaped flowers at the ends of the branches from mid to late spring, which emerge from distinctive red flower buds. It has attractive dark green evergreen foliage which emerges burgundy in spring.

Ostbo Red Mountain Laurel features showy clusters of rose cup-shaped flowers at the ends of the branches from mid to late spring, which emerge from distinctive red flower buds. It has attractive dark green evergreen foliage which emerges burgundy in spring.

Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel, is a gnarled, multi-stemmed, broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree that is native to Eastern North America (New England south to the southern Indiana, Louisiana and the Florida panhandle) where it is found in a variety of habitats including open rocky or sandy woods, cool meadows, balds ...

Perhaps the best red-budded strain of Mountain Laurel, with red buds that open to pinkish-red blooms that do not fade. Dense rounded habit with dark green foliage provides year round protection for wildlife.

Distinctive red flower buds open to showy clusters of rose cup-shaped flowers from mid to late spring. Attractive dark green foliage emerges burgundy in spring but remains dark green through the winter.