Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. When we first moved into our new old house we had a back forty (two acres) with blackberry vines and corn stubble. We started to carve out boundaries by planting a hedge of wax myrtles. From tiny, $2 quart pots, we soon had a soft, billowy evergreen buffer. Wax myrtles are a major component of our coastal woodlands understory. They are amazingly adaptable to sandy or wet sites and tolerant of some salt spray. As they age, they start to look like small live oaks and can be used beautiful specimens against walls or buildings. They are relatively fast growing if given any care at all and mature at fifteen to twenty feet. Their old name was Myrica cerifera but just to cause all of us trouble the genus has been changed to Morella.
The Amazingly Adaptable Wax Myrtle
