Landscape 101: Wax Myrtle

Need a 20 to 40 foot landscape screen?  Want a quick growing tall bush like tree?  Go get a Wax Myrtle...

Want a nice foundation plant?  Want one that will never grow taller than your roof?  Do not get a Wax Myrtle...

The point of this post...we have three wax myrtles in our foundation landscape.  I have to cut the dang things every other month otherwise they would be taller than our house.  I hate the dang things - I can't believe they were planted at the front corners of our house.  So here is what happens...

This was mid-way through the trimming...I had cut the sides and had started on the top. 

  Mostly finished...there are trimmings in the trash can that appear to be part of the bush and a tree way off the distant that looks like a missed branch...I promise these are not part of the bush.

And for the best part - I really want to trim these again - a serious deep cut - this winter because by December they will be just as tall as it.