Myrtus plants

Myrtus are a delightful group of bushy, medium-sized evergreen shrubs offering genuine year-round interest with evergreen foliage, late spring to early summer flowers and autumn berries. They produce attractive, solitary, bowl-shaped flowers in shades of white to shell pink, followed by fleshy, edible berries. Myrtus have an upright to rounded growth habit with oval or lance-shaped glossy green leaves, sometimes bronze tinged when young, typically reaching an eventual height and spread of 1.5-2 metres by 1.5-2.5 metres. Sprigs are used in Mediterranean cuisine to flavour meat dishes. It is a sacred shrub in Greek mythology and one of the four sacred plants in Jewish liturgy.