Many thansk for the replies, I'll have a read through during lunch later
today.

"aaj" wrote in message
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Hi

I'm a new gardener with lots of questions and after some advice.

1) We would love to have an Olive tree in the corner of our garden, but
I'm a little worried if it would survive a Northern winter. I have read
some other posts suggesting a southern city might be Ok, but it might
struggle in a Northern location. Although the winters don't seem as bad as
they used to be, we are quite high up (between Bradford and Leeds), and
there are spells of a few days/weeks where it is bitterly cold, especially
with the wind chill factor.

The tree would be protected on two sides by a fence, and in contrast to
the cold it would get winter and summer sun all day from about 10 am.

2) Assuming it is possible to grow an olive tree outside, I would like to
grow one from a sappling . We inherited a large green house, so perhaps I
could plant it in a pot and start it in there first. I would like to have
a tree about 10', is this a reasonable size or are they normally
bigger.?How quickly do they grow?

many thanks for any advice

Andy