It’s an excellent winter-flowering shrub that brings colour to winter landscapes
perfect as a specimen or accent plant in coastal and Mediterranean gardens
but it is also an attractive-looking addition to urban
flower buds may be damaged by late frosts
herbaceous
Olive Tree | Olea Europea 1/2 Std Crown - 270-280cm, 500lt 6ft-9ft | 2m - 3m It’s an excellent winter-flowering shrubOlea Europea is one of the worlds oldest cultivated plants with Mediterranean origin. Its a wonderful, slow growing, long lived, evergreen tree of very attractive habit and spreading crown, with gnarled, twisted trunk and silvery foliage. The elliptic leaves are grey green, silvery underneath. Tiny, fragrant, white flowers are followed by small, olive rich, plum like fruits, harvested when they are green or purple. Fruits are not edible directly from