29 Dwarf Wax Myrtle Shrub Liste

Enjoy your dwarf myrtle s lagerstroemia indica decorative beauty year after year with the added benefit of minimal pruning. Dwarf shrub with aromatic leaves and pale blue ornamental berries.

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Pumila myrica pusilla myricaceae. Among the most drought tolerant of all big landscape shrubs it makes a standard by which others can be measured. Dwarf wax myrtle is a small evergreen shrub that grows in colonies. Best grown in usda hardiness zones 7 to zone 9.

They bloom in march and april in texas but april to june in cooler climates. Dwarf wax myrtle has become a mainstay in many texas landscapes valued for its aromatic soft evergreen foliage 5 to 6 foot height and spread and adaptability to full sun or bright shade and a variety of soils ranging from boggy to very dry. Shear or grow naturally. A member of the wax myrtle or bayberry myricaceae family it can grow to 6 feet in height and is stoloniferous.

It remains an ideal small hedge plant for city gardens in warmer regions where it works well in mediterranean and drought resistant landscapes. Feed your wax myrtle with a general purpose fertilizer in early spring. The native habitat of the dwarf wax myrtle includes moist or dry sandy pine hardwoods in east texas east to louisiana florida and north carolina north to arkansas and delaware where it is a durable dense spreading evergreen shrub that can form patches or colonies by underground runners. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 7b through 11 wax myrtle is also sometimes referred to as southern bayberry.

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