Olives – A California Standard
Learn more and then sell more of this Mediterranean landscape classic.
Fruit Facts
If sited correctly, (away from sidewalks, driveways and other hardscape), the easiest way to handle the fruit drop is to plant an "olive swallowing" groundcover underneath. Groundcovers are a practical and beautiful solution. Excellent choices include low growing Ceanothus cultivars such as 'Yankee Point' or 'Joyce Coulter', yellow flowering Acacia prostrata and Acacia redolens, or deep blue flowering Sollya heterophylla.
If sited correctly, (away from sidewalks, driveways and other hardscape), the easiest way to handle the fruit drop is to plant an "olive swallowing" groundcover underneath. Groundcovers are a practical and beautiful solution. Excellent choices include low growing Ceanothus cultivars such as 'Yankee Point' or 'Joyce Coulter', yellow flowering Acacia prostrata and Acacia redolens, or deep blue flowering Sollya heterophylla.
Bamboo Pipeline supplies many of the fruitless or nearly fruitless varieties such as:
'Swan Hill Olive'® - From Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia. Introduced to California and Arizona nurseries in 1972. Its leaves are a deep green. Bears no fruit and more importantly to some, it produces little, if any, airborne pollen.