We wandered past sawgrass and wax myrtle, listening to the palmettos clatter in the wind and enjoying the boggy smell.
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The wax myrtle is a large, billowy shrub / small tree that attracts numerous species of birds with its blue berries.
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Q : We have Southern wax myrtles in our back yard that have looked sick since the latter part of the summer.
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Many gardeners prune wax myrtle, as they do ligustrum, into a multi-trunk small tree by removing the lower branches on the trunks.
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Houses that were built cheek by jowl to encourage over-the-picket-fence style dialogue now have yards choked with wax myrtle and coco palm.
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Boykin, a gardener, planted large mature wax myrtle and ligustrum shrubs to give the yard the look of an established in-town garden.
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Native plant species found on the dunes include sea oats, Sabal palmetto, Spanish bayonet, wax myrtle, yaupon holly, and several grass species.
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For the last five or six years, I've been pruning both a wax myrtle and a red tip to make twisted trunks.
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In the tests, the nearly half-inch-long insect chomped a little on some species, such as imported bottlebrush trees or native wax myrtles.
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-- Invite birds by planting shrubs that produce berries in winter, such as hollies, viburnums, cherry laurel, wax myrtle, pyracantha, mahonias and nandina.
