Natal Plum White flowers and red Fruit

Explore this garden shrub directory, covering colour, use, shape, size of shrubs. This shrub is grown because it makes an excellent shrub specimen from which flowers, and or foliage can be picked

Natal Plum

Carissa Grandiflora

White flowers and red Fruit

Summer flowering shrub

This shrub is grown because it makes an excellent shrub specimen from which flowers, and or foliage can be picked

Garden shrubs like this classed as an evergreen shrub. This means the shrub will keep its leaves (normally green) in winter season irrespective of the climate being hot, cold or mild. The most classic example of an evergreen is the fir tree

This shrub does not enjoy frost or freezing conditions. It may well survive the winter in protected areas of the garden However check with your local garden centre (center in US) first

When fully grown this shrub will reach a height of about 6 feet and spread over an area of about 10 feet

Acidic soil or soil with pH less than 7.0 is preferred for this shrub to thrive best. Peat can be used to correct soils which are not acidic

Prune out all old wood or woody growth in the shrub. Pruning promotes growth from the point at where the cut is made generally

If you're looking for a shrub with scented properties as a garden attraction choose this shrub