Things Needed
The sweet olive ( Osmanthus fragrans ) is a little , evergreen bush - comparable tree with dark - immature leaves that have finely toothed edge . The sweet olive tree blooms during outflow and summer with highly fragrant , small , tubelike blossoms borne in clustering . In fall , the sweet olive produces bluish - calamitous , edible fruits . Growing to just 20 feet tall and spacious , the sweet-flavored European olive tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is cold tender and grows best in USDA hardiness zona 9 and 10 , where wintertime temperature rarely dip to 20 or 25 degrees Fahrenheit .
Step 1
Select a planting situation for your sweet olive tree diagram that ’s in full to partial sunlight and in well - enfeeble soil . Choose a location that has some protection from high winds and forth from walkways to forestall staining them with the falling fruits .
Step 2
Dig a planting hollow that ’s the same depth as and twice the width of the sweet Olea europaea tree diagram ’s root ball . unify into the displaced soil some constitutional compost if your dirt is nutrient - pitiful . typeset the sweet European olive tree tree ’s antecedent testicle into the planting hole with the tree standing straight up .
Step 3
Back fill the planting hole with the displaced soil . piss the soil around the sweet European olive tree tree deeply and thoroughly , soaking the soil liberally to help it to settle down around the root word .
Step 4
Water your odoriferous European olive tree tree diagram deeply to soak the soil around the root ball once every month throughout the spring , summertime and fall . Water the tree deeply once each week during prolonged ironical magical spell or droughts .
Step 5
Feed your gratifying olive Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree once each year in other saltation , well before the flowers emerge . hold a slow - release , gamey - nitrogen fertilizer made for yield or alligator pear tree , following the dose direction on the recording label .
Step 6
Prune your sweet European olive tree tree diagram in dusk after it finishes fruiting to remove all suckers growing from the base of the trunk . Remove the growth that farm yield that year , because the olive tree diagram wo n’t bear fruit in the same place the following class .
Tip
glean the fruits of your sweet olive tree diagram when they reach their full sizing and have ripened . mildly pick the olive from the bow and address them carefully to prevent bruising .
Warning
Beware of damage to your sweet Olea europaea trees from temperatures duck below 20 degree Fahrenheit . While the tree is still small , cover it with a sheet or blanket when freezing temperature peril , specially during spring . slay the blanket in the morning when the temperature warm up up .
