Pacific Wax Myrtle, Morella californica - Native Plants PNW
In the Landscape: The Pacific Wax Myrtle is our best native shrub for screening. Several can be trimmed into a hedge or it can be mixed with other evergreens to create an informal screen. It is an ideal choice for coastal plantings due to its tolerance to salt spray.
Pacific Wax Myrtle, Myrica californica, Monrovia Plant
This fast growing, versatile native shrub adds vertical interest and shade to the landscape with little care. Ideal natural windbreak, screen or clipped hedge. Clean, glossy foliage is accented by purple fruit, a valued food source for birds. Evergreen.
Pacific Waxmyrtle - Myrica californica - PNW Plants
The Pacific Wax Myrtle's dense bushy form, rapid growth and glossy green leaves make it a popular shrub for screening. It can also be pruned into an attractive small tree. Broadleaf evergreen shrub that can ultimately grow to 30’ tall and 20’ wide if it is not pruned. It features many upright stems which are arranged in a rather loose fashion.
Morella californica (Pacific Wax Myrtle) - Gardenia
Easy to grow and easy to care for, Pacific Wax Myrtle is quite an ornamental shrub with its showy berries and dense, shiny evergreen foliage. Very versatile, it is an ideal choice for formal or naturalistic gardens. It can be sheared to produce manicured hedges or mixed with other evergreens to create an informal screen.
Pacific wax myrtle growing conditions and care
I’m looking for detailed information on how well Pacific wax myrtle (Morella aka Myrica californica) performs in northwestern Washington. Also, when is the best time to prune this shrub for renovation?
Pacific Wax Myrtle - Landscape Plant Source
A fast growing, coastal California native evergreen shrub that grows to form an upright, multi-trunking hedge. Foliage color ranges from bright to deep emerald green, and gives off a pleasant aroma when cut or crushed. Clusters of small yellow flowers bloom and accent the foliage during spring and into summer, followed by waxy purple berries.
Pacific Wax Myrtle: resilient native evergreen
2024年10月16日 · This remarkable shrub can be pruned as a formal hedge, a loose screen or even a small tree. As a screening hedge, Pacific Wax Myrtle provides habitat for a multitude of birds including Spotted towhee, several sparrows, …
Pacific Wax Myrtle - Sparrowhawk Native Plants
Pacific wax myrtle is a fast-growing, large, evergreen shrub that functions perfectly as a screen or hedgerow (goodbye invasive laurel!). It has narrow, lance-shaped leaves that are glossy and smooth to the touch.
Pacific Wax Myrtle - Myrica californica | North Carolina Extension ...
The Pacific Wax Myrtle is said to be the best native shrub for screening on the Pacific Coast. It may be trimmed as a hedge. This shrub is ideal for coastal planting because it is salt spray tolerant as well as poor soil tolerant.
Myrica californica (Pacific Wax Myrtle) - ucanr.edu
A stand of 20-foot wax myrtles combats the buffeting winds on the headlands at MacKerricher State Park north of Ft. Bragg. All sizes and shapes adapt to sandy, loamy, or clay soil. It performs best when planted in full, open sunlight in coastal areas but prefers afternoon shade inland.