Olive trees
 

Great treat in store! Tomorrow I shall be planting 2, 2metre high olive
trees in my 'Mediterranean orchard' (actually on the Isle of Wight) .
Any advice would be appreciated!

Duncan Heenan wrote:
Great treat in store! Tomorrow I shall be planting 2, 2metre high
olive trees in my 'Mediterranean orchard' (actually on the Isle of
Wight) . Any advice would be appreciated!

Care to tell how much they cost and where from?

pk

£100 each (but smaller ones are cheaper - see website). Got them from
http://www.crosscommonnursery.co.uk/...t=Olive+Trees#
Very easy company to deal with.
Duncan


"p.k." wrote in message
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Duncan Heenan wrote:
Great treat in store! Tomorrow I shall be planting 2, 2metre high
olive trees in my 'Mediterranean orchard' (actually on the Isle of
Wight) . Any advice would be appreciated!

Care to tell how much they cost and where from?

pk

Duncan Heenan wrote:
Great treat in store! Tomorrow I shall be planting 2, 2metre high
olive trees in my 'Mediterranean orchard' (actually on the Isle of
Wight) . Any advice would be appreciated!

Care to tell how much they cost and where from?

pk
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I planted one nearly three years ago. It was a skinny four=footer at the time. Below is a link to a pic taken two years later. (Spring 2004)
Although it comes from a dry area, I found it enjoyed a good soaking every week through it's first 2 summers.
Isle of Wight should be fine as I live on the coast in the south-west and it is quite exposed.

I also put fish,blood and bone in the planting hole.

http://www.lauryworld.com/gardengrow/olive04.jpg

Regards

Laury

"lauryc" wrote in message
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Duncan Heenan wrote:-
Great treat in store! Tomorrow I shall be planting 2, 2metre high
olive trees in my 'Mediterranean orchard' (actually on the Isle of
Wight) . Any advice would be appreciated!-

Care to tell how much they cost and where from?

pk



I planted one nearly three years ago. It was a skinny four=footer at the
time. Below is a link to a pic taken two years later. (Spring 2004)
Although it comes from a dry area, I found it enjoyed a good soaking
every week through it's first 2 summers.
Isle of Wight should be fine as I live on the coast in the south-west and
it is quite exposed.

I also put fish,blood and bone in the planting hole.

http://tinyurl.com/9jd8f

Regards

Laury


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lauryc[/i][/color]
Thanks.
My word that's grown! Do you get many olives? Black or Green? At what sort
of age do they start to go gnarled as in the Mediterranean?

pk
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I planted one nearly three years ago. It was a skinny four=footer at the
time. Below is a link to a pic taken two years later. (Spring 2004)
Although it comes from a dry area, I found it enjoyed a good soaking
every week through it's first 2 summers.
Isle of Wight should be fine as I live on the coast in the south-west and
it is quite exposed.

I also put fish,blood and bone in the planting hole.

http://tinyurl.com/9jd8f

Regards

Laury


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lauryc[/i][/color]
Thanks.
My word that's grown! Do you get many olives? Black or Green? At what sort
of age do they start to go gnarled as in the Mediterranean?[/quote]



Hi Duncan. It has grown like wildfire! I thought they were supposed to be slow. I think it takes years and years to get the gnarled trunks. Pruning is supposed to help too, to get the shape. We have left ours to grow naturally.
Regarding olive fruit.... mmmm... well. We have one totally ripe black olive left. The birds got most of them while they were very small.

Here is a pic of it's size when planted in 2002.
http://www.lauryworld.com/gardengrow/babyolive1.jpg

I hope yours thrive for you too.
Regards

Laury

"Duncan Heenan" wrote in message
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Great treat in store! Tomorrow I shall be planting 2, 2metre high olive
trees in my 'Mediterranean orchard' (actually on the Isle of Wight) .
Any advice would be appreciated!

I bought a small one for £10 from Columbia Road Flower market in London
last spring. It's done wonders in a sunny position...I'm in Leigh-on-Sea in
Essex and the plant is west-facing. It's grown a fair amount (now about 2'
tall) and I had lots of weeny olives last summer and again right now.....not
that you be able to tell that they were olives, unless you knew it was an
olive tree!! Beautiful plant though.
Jo