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Took my three kids on an olive hunt yesterday found a nice olive below are some pictures. Hopefully if all goes well should have shoots in 2-4 weeks an be able to train basic design by Christmas they grow fast in the right conditions in South Australia.
The olive is about 80cm tall only branch alive is the one that goes to the left.

Nice... Where about in Adelaide did you dig it up?

Sounds like Dremel time to me!!!

Hi goff found this olive at brown hill creek

When i got home it was chain saw time heheheh it had heaps of surface roots so was able to cut a lot of the base of the bottom olive are so tough i remember using an axe when i was a lot younger hahah

Im also a olive fan and always looking for a digging mate.. I have never been to brown hill creek. If your going one day send me a pm if your keen

Yeah that be good ill be going back there in about 2-3 weeks as i live out at Goolwa ill send you a message about 3-4 days out from when im going again it be on a Saturday morning if that works for you

Sounds good.

Goff wrote:Im also a olive fan and always looking for a digging mate.. I have never been to brown hill creek. If your going one day send me a pm if your keen

Count me in too I was told at the last club meeting by and olive fan that Brown hill creek is a great spot. I'm keen as mustard but I'm not sure now is the right time of year though? ? ?

Luke308 wrote:

Goff wrote:Im also a olive fan and always looking for a digging mate.. I have never been to brown hill creek. If your going one day send me a pm if your keen

Count me in too I was told at the last club meeting by and olive fan that Brown hill creek is a great spot. I'm keen as mustard but I'm not sure now is the right time of year though? ? ?

Think it's pretty hard to kill an olive. I have only loss one in last two years I have been collecting them

Olives are bullet proof i can remember digging some out on the Thursday when working in Adelaide when i was much younger leaving them in the car till Saturday morning when i went out to my parents place to pot them up didn't lose any that i can think of also ive collected olive all year round an from what i can remember is one collected in the warmer months tend to shoot faster i think

this olive has finally shooting will post pictures when shoots are much big they are up high so will get it growing strong an slowly lower the height

OC you make the dig seem easy as mega stumps keep coming.

Here's one for ya to get your teeth stuck into

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I like your last photo...

An Olive, a chainsaw and a keg of beer....aahhhh yes!

Olivecrazy wrote:Olives are bullet proof i can remember digging some out on the Thursday when working in Adelaide when i was much younger leaving them in the car till Saturday morning when i went out to my parents place to pot them up didn't lose any that i can think of also ive collected olive all year round an from what i can remember is one collected in the warmer months tend to shoot faster i think

I always remember a story Janet S. told me about an Olive dig her and her best mate (those who know Janet will know who I mean ) went on a few years ago. Janet's mate has a friend who had purchased some land in the Barossa and were going to plant a few grapes on it. The land was, surprisingly, covered in some fairly large olives that were destined to be removed. Anyhow, Janet and friend make arrangements to go up and help "clear" the land, but something came up, I forget what. Long side of a short story Janet and Pauline finally get to the Barossa, only to find a bulldozer had been in and cleared the intended vineyard and all the olives were pushed into a heap ready for burning. I can't recall the time span but it was what I considered, at the time, a very long time for trees to be out of the ground and still have any hope of recovery. Anyhow as the girls had travelled all that way it was decided to rumage through the heap and see if there was anything woth salvaging. They took a few likely candidates, which ended up being potted up. I dare say one or two of those trees make it to the show bench for the annual Bonsai Show to this day. Forgot to mention, it was the middle of summer when the trees were removed from the ground by that bulldozer blade. Olives, tough? Nup don't reckon they are

Tell you a funny story about Brown Hill Creek as well. Last visit to Adelaide (Bonsai wise) must have been 10 or 11 years ago. Went to a Bonsai Club meeting with the before mentioned two ladies and when asked what I was doing while in Adelaide I replied I was going to Brown Hill for some Olives and maybe an Ash or 2. Reply was I was wasteing my time as Brown Hill Creek had been dug out and there was nothing worth collecting there anymore. I ended up getting 6 or 7 trees in the morning, all good subjects. Good to hear the park has still been dug out, with nothing worth collecting there. Shepherds Hill was another area not worth digging in either.