OLIVE TREES

Olive trees make excellent ornamental specimens with their gnarled, twisting trunks, silvery-green foliage, and amazing longevity. Though grown commercially for olive production, certain ornamental varieties of olive trees (Olea europaea) are cultivated specifically for landscaping.

Popular options like the twisted or "curlique" olive have incredibly sculpted, contorted trunk shapes that become more gnarled and picturesque with age. Weeping olive varieties cascade elegant draping branches creating a beautiful natural sculptural form.

Beyond their unique growth habits, ornamental olives offer year-round interest with their leathery, evergreen leaves coloured a distinctive pewter or olive-green tone. The foliage also has a soft, felted texture underneath.

These drought-tolerant trees thrive in hot, dry climates and only require infrequent watering once established. They can be pruned into artistic shapes and trained as multi-trunk specimens or small ornamental standards.

Whether used for xeriscaping, Mediterranean-style gardens, or as striking patio trees, ornamental olive varieties provide intriguing forms, textures and colours. Their rugged, time-worn appearance evokes the traditional landscapes of the Mediterranean.

Our olive trees have been grown with a guarantee. The differential seal on our ornamental olive trees is their capacity of resistance to the coldest and most demanding European winter climates. The climatic adaptation of a Mediterranean tree so that it can resist the winter cold is the result of a careful and controlled acclimatisation process which takes, in general, from one to two or even more years. This all happens in the tree nursery, which not only has a characteristic location close to the Pyrenees, but also is directed and controlled by our nursery experts.