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Fri, Mar 8, 13 at 7:44
| For me, buying plants is like "hauling coal to Newcastle" :) However I am vulnerable to the same whims that everyone else is subject to. Wax Myrtle is native to my state along the southern coastal plain. It can grow to be a smallish, evergreen tree. I read about, and saw images of 'Don's Dwarf'. I received a dozen one quart liners yesterday. I must say, not what I was expecting. I was expecting something tight and compact, not loose and straggly. Do you have any experience with 'Don's Dwarf' Do you think that's what I have?  |
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- Posted by dave_in_nova VA zone 7a (My Page) on Fri, Mar 8, 13 at 10:00
| Hi Sam, No experience with Don's Dwarf. I grow the regular wax myrtle. Many plants look gangly in their 'adolescence'. I think one reason why Koehne hollies, for example, are not more popular is because they just look gangly when small sitting in the nursery. But if you ever saw a large tree, you'd wonder why in the world more people don't grow them. I'm sure with a good growing season or two, yours will put on lots of dense growth. I'm not sure where in Maryland you live, but you may need to protect them the first winter or two with something that will keep the snow loads from breaking them. |
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| I don't know anything about that cultivar, but those look find for rooted cuttings that size. I suspect they all look about the same until they get growing. |
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| ...deep the snow loads from breaking them dave-in-nova may have a good point. At one time the Nat'l Herb Garden had a gorgeous, informal wax myrtle hedge. I really don't know what happened, maybe snowmageddon. As you can see, they have really been hacked back, a shell of their former self. I'm hoping that a denser form like 'Don's Dwarf' won't have that problem. |
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