Wax Myrtle Don's Dwarf (Morella cerifera “don's dwarf") toy resembling delicate fireworks

resembling delicate fireworks

fragrant white flowers provide nectar for bees and butterflies in spring

The heart-shaped door gives it away: this is a little "love shack

It likes a location where it gets sun through the majority of the day (part sun to full sun areas)

Wax Myrtle Don's Dwarf (Morella cerifera “don's dwarf") toy resembling delicate fireworksWax Myrtle (Morella cerifera) is an erect, multi trunked evergreen understory shrub. Found along the Coastal Plain from southern New Jersey to Florida and west along the Gulf Coastal Plain to eastern Texas and southeast Oklahoma, Wax Myrtle is an early successional species that is highly adaptable to a range of conditions: it can be found growing in fresh to slightly brackish banks and shores; pine flatwoods; marshes; wet prairies; hammocks; swamps;