We are unable to guarantee plants that are improperly cared for after delivery. If we are at fault we will replace the plant in question or issue a nursery credit for the purchase price of the plant. Please contact us within 5 days of the receipt of your order if such is not the case.Guarantee – We guarantee that all plants sold by Broken Arrow Nursery are healthy and true to name when they leave the nursery.All shipments are weather and plant growth dependent. Shipment Period – We ship plants in the fall from September – November and in the spring from March – May.Unfortunately we are unable to ship plants to AK, AZ, CA, CO, FL, HI, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, or WA. Shipping Restrictions – Mail-order is restricted to the plants that are included in the mail-order section of our website.A small number of oversized plants have an additional $10 surcharge. There is a $30, $35, or $40 minimum shipping fee, depending on your region, for plant orders under $100. Plants display excellent branch structure and a compact-rounded form. The small leaves are lustrous dark green and recurve from petiole to tip. Shipping Charges - Due to increasing costs associated with shipping plants and the time required to package orders we have established a 30% flat shipping fee for all plant orders in the Northeast, 35% flat shipping fee for remaining states east of the Mississippi River and a 40% flat shipping fee for all states west of the Mississippi River. A distinctive, vigorous miniature laurel with pink buds that open to bright cinnamon-maroon banded flowers.Changing Your Order - If you have an order that has been placed, the only way to modify it is by emailing us.For fall, our plants will be shipped from September 6th (weather dependent) until the week of November 14th.Flowers open white with a broad, maroon-red band circling the inside of each flower cup near the rim. MOUNTAIN LAUREL-KALMIA latifolia Minuet Evergreen Blooms White inside a Purple Boarder Zone 4 We grow these in Starter Plug, Gal., Full gal., 3-Gal., and 5. It features ornamentally attractive light pink flower buds. 'Minuet' is a dwarf shrub that typically matures to only 3' tall and as wide. Genus name honors Pehr Kalm (1715-1779), Finnish pupil of Linnaeus, who was sent by the Swedish government in 1748 to report on the natural resources of North America. Linnaeus named the genus herein after Swedish botanist Peter Kalm (1716-1779) who explored plant life in parts of eastern North America from 1747 to 1751. Mountain laurel has acquired a number of different common names over time including ivy bush, spoonwood, calico bush and American laurel. Kalmia latifolia is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. All parts of this plant are toxic if ingested. Elliptic, alternate, leathery, glossy evergreen leaves (to 5” long) are dark green above and yellow green beneath and reminiscent to the leaves of rhododendrons. If not deadheaded, flowers give way to non-showy brown fruits (3/16” dehiscent capsules) that persist into winter. Each flower (to 1” across) is cup shaped with five sides and ranges in color from rose to white with purple markings inside. Flowers appear in terminal clusters (corymbs to 6” across), typically covering the shrub in late May-June for several weeks with an often exceptional bloom. Notwithstanding its usual shrub habit, mountain laurel will rarely grow as a small tree (particularly on slopes in the Appalachian Mountains) to as much as 30’ tall. It typically grows as a dense rounded shrub to 5-15’ tall, opening up and developing gnarly branches with age. A distinctive, vigorous miniature laurel with pink buds that open to bright cinnamon-maroon banded flowers. It is noted for its excellent spring flowers and quality year round foliage. This rhododendron relative bursts into flower in mid June with. 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, mountain slopes and woodland margins. Kalmia latifolia Minuet is a wonderful dwarf selection of the eastern U.S.
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