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Olive Trees
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Key Feature
Grow Food
Best Benefit
Heart Healthy
Ease of Use
Heat, Wind & Cold Tolerant
BUY — TRANSPORT — INSTALL — MAINTAIN — HARVEST
Wholesale | Retail
Olive Trees
for Commercial Use
Key Feature
Grow Food
Best Benefit
Heart Healthy
Ease of Use
Heat, Wind & Cold Tolerant
Key Features
Fruiting
Produces Olives and Olive Oil
Fruiting olive trees make ideal candidates for the commercial or hobby orchard farmer. We offer numerous cultivars perfect for different growing conditions as well as to meet your flavor and production needs.
Some cultivars’ olives produce sweet oil and have a high ratio of flesh to pit. Other cultivars produce less oil and have a smaller ratio of flesh to pit.
Flavor can vary wildly between various cultivars. Let us show you the differences to help you make the best selection for your grove.
Healthy
Dietary Benefits
Olives are a well-known source of heart-healthy food. Olives are very high in vitamin E and other powerful antioxidants. Studies show that they are good for the heart and may protect against osteoporosis and cancer.
Learn more about the olive oil’s health benefits in this list of 11 proven benefits.
Ease of Care
Heat, Cold, Wind, Drought Tolerant
Olive trees make ideal candidates for food production due to their low water requirements and general tolerance to heat and cold temperature extremes.
General Growth Conditions & Characteristics
Light
Full sun
Olive trees do best with 8 hours of bright sunlight.
Soil
Well-drained, nutrient poor soil
Olive trees prefer well-drained soil and grow well even in nutritionally poor soil. They thrive in hot and rocky locations. While new plantings will do best with regular water, established trees are fairly drought tolerant and only require water occasionally.
Temperature
Heat to cold
Although olive trees do well with both higher heat and cold, winter temperatures, various cultivars react with greater (or lesser) tolerance to heat or cold. Most are hardy down to 20 or 30°F. Ask us which cultivars may be best for your growing conditions.
Growth
Slow to Vigorous
Olive trees vary in growth rate over time. Some are slow; others are moderate or even vigorous in their rate of growth. Left unattended, some cultivars may grow to 30 feet or more. But they respond well to pruning, if you wish to maintain them at a specific size. Most flower in spring or summer, and their fruit production is harvested in the fall.
Some fruiting olive trees require pollinators and others will self-pollinate. Most do best when interplanted with other fruiting cultivars. Ask us which cultivars work best with your primary cultivar and what percentage of pollinators is ideal for your orchard.
Size
10 to 30+ feet
Tree size may vary widely depending upon how much it’s been pruned historically in an established olive tree. Many are maintained at 20 (+/-) feet for orchard spacing. Some cultivars are characterized by upright branches and others by more pendulous or “weeping” branch style. Also, some trees have dense canopies, as wide as the tree is tall.
We consult on orchard planning, including selection of cultivars, spacing, installation, maintenance and harvest. Some cultivars are ideal for mass planting and mechanical harvesters. Others may respond best to manual harvest, with spacing that is prohibitive to mechanical harvesting.
Fruiting olive trees serve a variety of purposes for orchard health. For example, Frantoio are self-pollinating olive trees but also make excellent pollinators for other fruiting cultivars.
Scroll down to view our fruiting, commercial use olive trees to determine which types may be most appropriate to your planting and design conditions.
Fruiting Commercial Use Olive Trees
Zitoun Olive Tree
This tree is prized for drupes of dark wine color, freckled with a whitish dusting for both table & oil use, available in 15 gal. containers. [ LEARN MORE ZITOUN]
Frantoio Olive Tree
The Frantoio olive tree grows well in milder climates, but it is not as tolerant of heat and cold as Spanish olive cultivars. This fruiting olive tree grows with moderate speed and has an airy... [ LEARN MORE FRANTOIO ]
Coratina Olive Tree
The Coratina olive tree is often grown in the shape of an inverted conical vase. It’s characterized by early fruit production and by its adaptability to different soils and climates... [ LEARN MORE CORATINA ]
Ancient Olive Tree
Ancient olive trees are prized for their beauty and attractive, silvery green foliage. While ancient olive trees may... [ LEARN MORE ANCIENT ]
Picual Olive Tree
An early producer with high, constant yields. This rustic cultivar adapts to diverse environmental conditions with moderate cold tolerance. [ LEARN MORE PICUAL]
Picholine Du Gard
This cultivar thrives on Mediterranean growing conditions and has a particularly fruity taste. Originating from Collias and Gard in the South of France, it’s got a fruity taste with slightly peppery notes. [ LEARN MORE PICHOLINE DU GARD]
Sevillano Olive Tree
Sevillano is a picturesque evergreen, fruiting tree with small dark green leaves that give a willow-like, airy effect. It develops...[ LEARN MORE SEVILLANO ]
Cerignola Olive Tree
Predominantly used for commercial production, these Cerignola olive trees grow the largest olives in the world and originate in the Puglia region of Italy. Due to their size... [ LEARN MORE CERIGNOLA ]
Arbosana Olive Tree
This tree matures a bit later, with a fruity flavor, along with nutty tones, and medium pungency. [ LEARN MORE ARBOSANA]
Leccino Olive Tree
The Leccino olive tree is one of the primary cultivars used in Italian olive oil production. It is best known for its Tuscan origins and delicate flavor profile. All across Italy, it is considered... [ LEARN MORE LECCINO ]
Kalamata Olive Tree
The Greek Kalamata is one of the most famous olive cultivars. It produces an attractive, deep reddish-purple fruit. The trees grow close to the Ionian sea in the Kalamata... [ LEARN MORE KALAMATA ]
Manzanillo Olive Tree
Manzanillo is the most important Spanish, fruiting cultivar. This tree’s olives are appreciated on the international markets for the recognizable shape of the fruit, the ease of... [ LEARN MORE MANZANILLO ]
Arbequina Olive Tree
This self-fruiting olive tree is prized for its dark brown fruit, highly aromatic oil content, and its attractive, silvery green foliage. Highly adaptable, Arbequina produces abundantly in hot dry climates... [ LEARN MORE ARBEQUINA ]
Mission Olive Tree
The Mission olive is a cultivar developed in California, by Spanish missions along El Camino Real in the late 18th century. ... [ LEARN MORE MISSION ]
Itrana Olive Tree
The Itrana cultivar is native to the Italian region of Lazio. It's produced primarily for table olives but is also used for milling into highly prized oil. [ LEARN MORE ITRANA]
Koroneiki Olive Tree
After the Arbequina and Arbosana, Koroneiki olive trees are the most widely grown throughout Greece. With an open canopy and medium vigor, it is ideal for dense planting... [ LEARN MORE KORONEIKI ]
Pendolino Olive Tree
Pendolino is named for its pendulous branching characteristic, making it ideal for manual fruit cultivation. This variety is widely appreciated by growers for its high fruit... [ LEARN MORE PENDOLINO ]
Maurino Olive Tree
This self-sterile olive tree is prized for its sweet and delicate oil, as well as being tolerant of very low temperatures. it's ideal for cooler climates and dense plantings. Its graceful, pendulous form makes Maurino an attractive olive tree for hedgerows and orchards.[ LEARN MORE MAURINO ]
Ascolana Tenera Olive Tree
Hailing from province of Ascoli Piceno, in the southern part of the Marche region on the central Adriatic coast of Italy, Ascolana Tenera olive trees produce [ LEARN MORE ASCOLANA TENERA ]
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