Thread: olive tree - olea europaea - Winter hardy in UK?
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Old 16-05-2007, 08:20 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default olive tree - olea europaea - Winter hardy in UK?

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Gill Matthews Try the writes:
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| "David \(Normandy\)" writes:
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| | Also - are they self fertile or do I need another tree? I'm partial to juicy
| | black olives.
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| Eaten straight off the tree? :-)
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| Olives striaght off the tree are vile and inedible, but I'm sure you knew that ;-)

Shucks. Discovered!

I once tried one, on the grounds that you should try everything once,
except incest and folk-dancing, and came to the conclusion it was an
activity that should be done at most once per lifetime.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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