Bog-myrtle
Myrica gale
In Dutch: Wilde gagel
ShrubsCollection: Native species
Size and growth
- Mature height
- 1,2 m
- Mature spread
- 1,2 m
- Height as sold
- about 20–40 cm
- Full grown after
- 3–5 years
Position and care
- Position
- sun / partial shade
- Water needs
- high
- Evergreen
- no, loses its leaves
- Flower colour
- red
- Climbs
- no
- Winter-hardy
- yes
- Bees & butterflies
- no
- Hay fever
- unknown
- Poisonous
- mildly poisonous
- Pricks or stings
- no
- Maintenance
- low
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to October
- Flower
- March to May
- Fruit
- August to September