We spent 13 years building an abundant fruit forest, annual veggie beds, perennial medicinal herbs, and a healthy mixed hardwood-coniferous forest and now we’ve sold our property to the next stewards so that we can begin a new homesteading project in Vermont closer to our best friends and their kids.

Don’t worry - we plan to keep this website up and running so that our customers can reference what we’ve written about our plants!

We’ll let you know once we re-start a farm in Vermont!

Pacific Waxmyrtle

Myrica californica

Habit
Shrub
Ecological Role
Adapted to heavy clay soilDeer resistantEvergreen leavesFlavorful teaHedgerowsHosts bacteria that fix nitrogenNative to the Pacific NWTolerates shade
Availability
Sold out

Pacific waxmyrtle is an evergeen shrub/small tree native to the west coast of North America. It can grow 5-30 feet tall and has sticky leaves and a waxy wrinkled purple berry.  It is a great evergreen hegde plant and can even grow in almost full shade.