Another Olive Next to a Highway!

Mount Nasura · Post by **Mount Nasura** » March 25th, 2014, 9:20 pm

Here's the olive potted up after a couple of days soaking. A lot of olives are putting on growth around perth at the moment and this one was no exception . I Dug this one in 10 mins which i was happy about as it wasn't far off the great southern Hwy! I Have deliberately left the top longer then intended and will cut back to an appropriate future leader lower down in a Year or 2.

will do a vert when i can but I'm pretty sure you can see where this is going. However any suggestions will be carefully considered!

Drac0 · Post by **Drac0** » March 25th, 2014, 9:33 pm

May have to find one of these olives to add to my growing 'test' collection. My problem is I wouldn't know one if it jumped out & hit my car....

Off to study them.....

Cheers

**EDIT**
Newb question: are these the African olives that seem to be labelled weeds all over the place?

Mount Nasura · Post by **Mount Nasura** » March 25th, 2014, 11:35 pm

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the hedging plant Wild Olive. Olives are recorded as one of the earliest plant introductions to Australia ...

Trying to get this link up sorry, interesting article.

Drac0 · Post by **Drac0** » March 26th, 2014, 12:00 am

Yeah, was looking at that one earlier, here's a working link (I hope):

African Olive (Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata) as an environmental weed in eastern Australia: a review

The 2 pictures of Mount Annan 20 years apart really shows why they consider it a weed....

Isitangus · Post by **Isitangus** » March 26th, 2014, 6:31 am

I'm in the mount Annan area and they are EVERYWHERE! You cannot drive for 5 minutes and not see bucket loads of them

bonborn · Post by **bonborn** » March 26th, 2014, 6:46 am

Isitangus wrote:I'm in the mount Annan area and they are EVERYWHERE! You cannot drive for 5 minutes and not see bucket loads of them

Well then you better start digging them out and selling it to us Sydney siders.

Mount Nasura · Post by **Mount Nasura** » May 26th, 2014, 8:06 pm

Its been exactly 2 months since collection and was pleasantly surprised to find some budding and growth, in all the desired places! sorry couldn't get the last one to focus.

Andrew Legg · Post by **Andrew Legg** » May 27th, 2014, 7:41 am

Always lovely when they start moving!

Sorry people, but we had to send you olives to get you back for this

Port Jackson!!!

fredman · Post by **fredman** » May 27th, 2014, 9:07 am

Agreed Andrew. Aussie definitely got the better of the deal. Olea Africana is supreme bonsai material. Very hard and durable wood with a beautiful grain.

Them pesky wattles do have one use though..... kindling for Firewood

Raymond · Post by **Raymond** » May 27th, 2014, 10:31 am

Andrew Legg · Post by **Andrew Legg** » May 27th, 2014, 8:40 pm

fredman wrote:Agreed Andrew. Aussie definitely got the better of the deal. Olea Africana is supreme bonsai material. Very hard and durable wood with a beautiful grain.

Them pesky wattles do have one use though..... kindling for Firewood

LOL - Wait till you see what I dug last weekend!

It wasn't wattles!

Mount Nasura · Post by **Mount Nasura** » May 28th, 2014, 1:28 am

And the sketch, the cliche bonsai...

fredman · Post by **fredman** » May 28th, 2014, 7:07 am

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. I'm olive green of envy....

AusBonsai

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