| Description | Ribes uva-crispa
Gooseberries provide tarty-tasting berries perfect for cooking. They also make an excellent laxative and have been used as a cleansing agent.
- Summer fruiting
- Health benefits
- Small and compact growing bush
| Luma apiculata
Myrtus Luma is the medium to tall hedge with real traditional style. A lot of people believe the only fast growing larger hedge with fine foliage is the Pittosporum. It is an extraordinarily versatile plant suitable for hedging, screening, topiary, or as a specimen tree, but its small, aromatic leaves respond so well to pruning that it is commonly used as a hedge.
Myrtus luma also makes a wonderful specimen tree if left unpruned. With age it forms an outstanding trunk with cinnamon brown branches. Its bark peels to reveal streaks of pink and beige. What a plant! It really should be seen more in Australian gardens.
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| Content | Ribes uva-crispa
European Gooseberry is a small growing deciduous shrub, with pink-green flowers that will turn into lime green-yellow veined berries with fine hairs. It will need to be protected from frosts and supreme heat and also require any well-drained soil with regular compost. Also be sure to protect from the birds! | | |
