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Mountain laurel planted

October 3, 2025

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My excellent wife got me a gift card for Direct Native Plants earlier this year and I finally used it to buy a mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia). The timing of its delivery worked out well: it hadn't been long after I finished preparing the site that it arrived and I put it in the ground. Looking forward to having Pennsylvania's state flower blocking part of the view to the road. Many more things will need to go in to fully block the view, but it's a start.

View from a few feet from the mountain laurel, which is surrounded by a column of chicken wire with a top on it.
View from further back, showing its placement among other plantings in the lawn, like a bur oak and a chestnut. In the background is an old stone gazebo and a house.

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