Myrtus Communis flowers...

I had this once and would love to grow it again. We had a more sheltered garden then. Beautiful flower form and colour.

Such a pretty flower .. exploding firework !

It does need some shelter......worth it though.....we have the variegated one too.....but that’s a tree now.
Amy the flowers are very tiny.....was testing the Macro facility on my phone.....

Dd, my bush is about 6 feet high, grown from a tiny plant bought at least 20 years ago. I have to protect it in winter by tying fleece over it. One year it did get frosted & all the leaves dropped off but they just grew back in spring, no flowers that year though. This year masses with all the heat. Do you know of a use for all the berries, seems such a waste not to be used to make soap or something, smell
so pleasantly antiseptic.

So very pretty, great detail captured too. Dd.

Thanks Kate......feverfew this has been made into a standard, and we prune it every year to keep the shape.....you can make syrups I believe....