![]() This plant makes an excellent hedge or screen, an ideal replacement for invasive laurel hedges, and can be heavily pruned for narrow spaces. It’s roots have a relationship with nitrogen-fixing microorganisms, which allow it to grow in low-nutrient soils while enriching them over time. For best success, place it in a full to mostly sunny place with basically any soil type, from damp to dry, and plenty of room to grow. Gardening with Pacific Wax Myrtle: This hardy wonder shrub will not only tolerate, but will look stunning, in a wide variety of light and soil conditions. Special features & uses: evergreen, hedgerow and windbreak, wildlife favorite, bank stabilization and erosion control, deer resistant.Native habitat/range: Common in coastal conifer forests, bogs, sand dunes, stream banks, wet meadows, marshes, and moist hillsides along the Pacific Northwest coastline from British Columbia through most of California, sea level to 1000m.Wildlife support: berries are prized food for small mammals and birds flowers attract and provide nectar to adult butterflies overall plant/vegetation is caterpillar host plant and larval food source for many species of native moths.Growth rate/ease: fast growing, very easy to grow.Light requirements: full sun, part-sun / part-shade.Size at maturity: 10’-30’ tall, 10’-20’ wide (can be heavily pruned into more narrow spaces).Plant type/canopy layer: evergreen perennial large shrub.Inconspicuous flowers arrive in spring and transform into clusters of small red to purple berries by fall that are a magnet for backyard birds and wildlife. ![]() It has narrow, lance-shaped leaves that are glossy and smooth to the touch. Pacific Wax Myrtle is a fast growing, large evergreen shrub that functions perfectly as a screen or hedgerow (goodbye invasive laurel!). ![]()
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