livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
I remember someone on here planted some wax myrtles at their camp. Where is a good place to buy em? Anybody got any good leads for these or other native trees? Thanks
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Wax myrtle?
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Triple C
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Check with GFC. Been growing them since 2013. Great screening plant that's easy to grow.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
Thanks! I think you were the one i saw post about em a couple years back. Thanks for the info, gonna plant a few for a hedge. I will check with gfc, bout tree orderin time!
hancock husler
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My place in Hancock has a ton of them.
westcobbdog
Senior Member
I like a handful of crushed leaves as cover scent.,the gray ripe berries have a nice scent, too.
The crushed leaves are a good skeeter repellent too. Just doesnt last long.
spencer12
Senior Member
Need to check quickly they are sold out of a lot of species. They usually come back in stock around March or so.
Triple C
Senior Member
Yep. Planted in 2012 or 13 as 12" to 18" bare roots. Now bout 20 to 25 ft tall. Unfortunately, the ones we planted for screens along the dirt road were nuked by the county when they sprayed the banks with some type of chemical that killed anything growing and a prescribed fire that got a few of em. Just a few left along the property line but the ones by the entrance that didn't get nuked are huge. Really like em.
Swamprat
Swamprat
You can dig up all the myrtles you want for free in a lot of places.
No need to pay money for a trash shrub.
No need to pay money for a trash shrub.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
Not that many up in north ga, they grow fast and fix nitrogen, whats not to like?
Swamprat
Swamprat
It is a trash shrub that has no benefit to wildlife in general.
Triple C
Senior Member
Swamp - OP asked where he could purchase wax myrtle or other native trees...not your opinion of what is and is not a trash shrub. I can't think of a plant that is native to the southeast I would consider trash. I can think of a number of invasive species that I'd consider trash. YMMV.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
Yep just an fyi im tryin out the wax myrtle to replace a privet hedge on my fenceline along the road. I know privet ia here to stay but if i can use a native all the better.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
It has a benifit to my privacy?
Triple C
Senior Member
You'll like it as a screen. Make sure it gets plenty of sun. And, you'll find bird nests in it during the spring.
spencer12
Senior Member
I actually think it’s little blue berries are eaten by most of our birds and I want to say several species of butterfly or bees? Benefit from it as well.
spencer12
Senior Member
I hinge cut the large ones and the deer will eat the leaves of the freshly sprung limbs I do know that as well.
Triple C
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Took this pic of a wax myrtle when I arrived at farm this afternoon n opened gate. It was a 12 inch bare root stem 5 yrs ago.
Core Lokt
Senior Member
Some do but the squirrels will cut the limb just below the berry clump and take it with them. I have a big one in my yard and they cut it almost bare each year. At least this is what happens in my yard. I need to think the little jokers out some. Way too many.
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