Plant identification

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  June 2020 edited June 2020

  That looks like small-leaved Myrtle, just like this Myrtus communis subsp. tarentina I have growing by the front door:

  https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=2979
  

  
  
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• chat2elena Posts: 25

  June 2020

  Thank you, that indeed looks like it. Is it the herb?

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  June 2020

  @chat2elena Yes, this is still Myrtus communis, just a small-leaved cultivar.  It can be used in exactly the same way:

  http://www.manorfarmherbs.co.uk/herbinfo/myrtle
  

  It will need planting against a sunny south or west facing wall as they are not fully hardy in the UK.  Mine is in a raised bed by the south-facing front door and does very well indeed (it needs a good prune, I just noticed!)

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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