Having killed several, & hopefully learned from my mistakes, I recently
bought another dwarf myrtle (Myrtus communis 'Compacta'). Seeking inspiration on
the Web, I looked for some pictures. Searching on "Myrtle bonsai" brought up
nothing but crape myrtle. Searching on Myrtus communis brought up one decent
specimen from Phoenix. There were a number of pictures from Germany & Austria,
all of them dreadful to an American eye. They were all done in pompoms. Even a
natural unstyled myrtle in Israel looks better (it grows as an upright oval
dense bush). Don't tell me a myrtle can't be styled to look like something with
taste, or can't it?
Iris

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