A LITTLE MORE LIFE
Naupaka kahakai
Scaevola taccada
This native coastal shrub makes a salt-tolerant hedge with little watering after establishment.
MAKE IT FEEL AT HOME
A spot to thrive.
Use the coastal species, Scaevola taccada, in full sun; allow for a broad mature spread.
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil moisture
- Dry soil
- Mature size
- Under 2–10 ft tall, by form · 15+ ft wide
- Season of interest
- Year-round flowers
- Local climate
- Choose by island, elevation, and rainfall.
- Garden role
- A coastal hedge
ONE GOOD SWAP
Instead of japanese pittosporum.
Pittosporum tobira
Try naupaka kahakai for a coastal hedge.
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Naupaka kahakai: Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Japanese pittosporum: skdavidson · CC BY-SA 2.5
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