Some landscape managers hedge the crown into a multi-stemmed dome-shaped topiary. Removing excess shoot growth two times each year eliminates the tall, lanky branches and reduces the tendency for branches to droop.
Set them back from the road if used as a street tree so drooping branches will not hinder traffic. It is adapted to parking lot and street tree planting, especially beneath powerlines, but branches tend to droop toward the ground, possibly hindering flow of vehicular traffic if not properly trained and pruned. It is also very salt-tolerant (soil and aerosol), making it suitable for seaside applications.
Southern wax myrtle hedge full#
Very tough and easily-grown, southern waxmyrtle can tolerate a variety of landscape settings from full sun to partial shade, wet swamplands or high, dry and alkaline areas. Then, of course, some day she might want to make candles. Secondarily, she is growing them for their nitrogen-fixing abilities, as they’ll thrive in her very poor pineland soil. She told me her primary goal was to give their land some privacy, and that wax myrtles didn’t really stand out as anything worth paying attention to. While on the road, I asked her why she wanted to plant a non-edible hedge across the front of her property. I actually went to the nursery with she and her husband on the day they bought their hedge plants. She put in a long hedge of wax myrtle in front of her property. Though I haven’t grown it, my friend Elizabeth here in Alabama does. It’s a nondescript shrub, rather common in some scrubby areas of the South.
I first heard about wax myrtle some years ago when I was researching natural sources of wax.
I’m thinking of planting a hedge of them and trying my hand at dipping candles from the berries. Michelle asks about the benefits of planting wax myrtle/bayberry:ĭavid, what are your thoughts on bayberry shrubs? I’ve read they grow well in poor soil and are nitrogen fixers.
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