This shrub has an upright dense bushy habit with branches that arch with age. The small glossy green leaves are ovate shape and the fluffy saucer-shape white flowers appear from early spring to summer. It is an excellent informal hedging plant.

Hardiness zones 8 to 11 

Myrtus communis is naturally found in the Mediterranean region growing in well drained moist soils.It prefers a open sunny position and needs cold or dry wind protection and is frost tolerant but drought tender.

Common Myrtle is grown as a lawn specimen or as a hedging or screening plant and may be trained against walls. It can be clipped for topiary and establishes in 2 to 3 years. It is also used as a container plant requiring protection in cooler climates. ID 1375

Note:
The plant has been under cultivation for hundreds of years and was used by the Ancient Greeks.

Myrtus (MUR-tus) communis (kom-EW-nis)

Myrtaceae (mir-TAY-see-ee)
Myrtle, Eucalyptus, Clove and Guava Family