Pacific Wax Myrtle
This fast growing versatile native shrub adds vertical interest and shade to the landscape with little care.
Pacific wax myrtle. Clean glossy foliage is accented by purple fruit a valued food source for birds. Easy to grow dense hedge popular low maintenance evergreen looks great in a hedge of three or five one tough plant grows in any soil the wax myrtle gives you a thick fragrant hedge. Pacific wax myrtle myrica californica is a tall dense evergreen shrub perfect as a backdrop for any garden large enough to accommodate it. Perfect for property lines or roadside plantings.
Myrica californica pacific wax myrtle this california native is a vigorous multi branched evergreen shrub reaching up to about 30 feet tall and 20 feet wide easily kept smaller. Myrica californica most commonly called pacific wax myrtle is an evergreen shrub that grows from 10 30 ft. Durable and easy to grow evergreen hedge the sturdy nature of the wax myrtle makes it. Myrica cerifera is a small evergreen tree or large shrub native to north and central america and the caribbean.
That said established plants will also tolerate moist to soggy soil conditions. When young it prefers a consistently moist soil but established plants are exceptionally drought tolerant. It can also be pruned into an attractive small tree. Dry moist exposure req.
The pacific wax myrtle s dense bushy form rapid growth and glossy green leaves make it a popular shrub for screening. It adapts to most any soil of average fertility to poor soils. Wax myrtle is very easy to grow. Sun part shade plant.
Fast growing adaptable and good looking year round this is a fine choice for informal hedges windbreaks and privacy screens. Ideal natural windbreak screen or clipped hedge. Distribution of pacific wax myrtle from usda plants database distribution.