Source: Nearly Native Nursery (GA)
Size shipped: #1 pot (measured about 1'8")
Planted: In ground, October 2020
First flowering: Not yet
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(This plant stayed behind when I moved in 2021; therefore, the following text will receive no further updates.)
Borderline hardy in our area, but they were cheap, so why not? Wanted two to create a small evergreen screen to put along the fence on one side of the incense-cedar. In this location, the neighbours' house on the other side of the fence will shield them from west winds somewhat, which is better than nothing.
You may be wondering what that "x2.5?" above is all about. Well, the wax-myrtle on the left I planted substrate and all, only loosening up the outermost layer of roots; but the wax-myrtle on the right I took the hose to and bare-rooted almost completely. When subesquently attempting to untangle its roots for planting and spread them out horizontally like good bare roots should be, not only would they not spread out (they stayed stubbornly vertical and stiff), but I also somehow ended up dividing the plant into two independent plants, without even trying to. Were they two separate root systems in a single pot, or did I just unwittingly perform my first-ever plant division? I shall never know.
I should also mention that watering in the soil around that second wax-myrtle (the one on the right) made it really muddy, possibly worse than I remember it being when planting the Nellie R. Stevens holly (in a similar bare-rooted manner). I don't know if it was the surprisingly clayey consistency that's to blame or what. In any case, the water also ended up washing some of the just-added soil off the roots, which I tried to correct by adding more soil on top, but I'm going to need to keep an eye on it going forward and possibly add some compost if the soil settles down through the root system again instead of staying put.
The winter of 2021 killed many of the leaves (though many of said dead leaves refused to fall from the plants) and also caused some broken branches due to the snow; I think it was University of Florida who said that this plant is on the weak-wooded side. I wonder if it will be any better when they are bigger and have more extensive root systems? On the other hand, it wasn't even a particularly cold winter (temperatures never dipped into single digits). Maybe not the best option for a prominent hedge in our climate, if this is the kind of leaf loss it will endure on a regular basis.