Myrica Gale (Sweetgale) Gardening Books not drought tolerant

not drought tolerant

and woodpeckers

Soil needs: course

Its native habitat is plains

used as a top dress around established plants or steeped to make a potent liquid solution

Myrica Gale (Sweetgale) Gardening Books not drought tolerantPlant Description: Sweetgale is a low growing, deciduous, bushy shrub with glossy, dark green to grayish foliage. Leaves are simple and alternate with the blades widest above the middle and tips rounded with several pairs of shallow, rounded teeth. Leaves are sweet scented. Inconspicuous flowers are borne in catkins male and female flowers are mostly borne separately on different plants (dioecious) but sometimes on the same plant (monoecious).