ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 7:23 pm
Any ideas?
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Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 7:33 pm
Its an Olive, that's for sure. Olea europeae I'd say.
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 9:06 pm
sweeeet, its probs a metre tall, two very thin,
take cutings or dig it up? its just growing, im a lil garden bed, no idea how it got there
take cutings or dig it up? its just growing, im a lil garden bed, no idea how it got there
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 9:08 pm
and a frangipeni 
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 9:14 pm
haha, sure is, mum loves em
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 10:00 pm
Give it some thought before you dig it up or cut it back. I'll post a pic of my olive tomorrow. Same type and I have trained it for about 2,5 to 3 years so far. It is still thin and needs plenty more work, but it is on its way to becoming a decent little tree. One nice thing I have found about olives is if you catch them early enough they bend well.
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 10:08 pm
it has just broken through thick canopy of chinese jasmine, is very tall and thin and im moving soon so i thought i should dig and chop now. but not sure. 
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 27th, 2011, 1:20 pm
any ideas on how i should get it out?
can i airlayer to get two trees? or can you just cut and put in ground and it will grow?
can i airlayer to get two trees? or can you just cut and put in ground and it will grow?
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 27th, 2011, 1:27 pm
take the lot cut it back put it in a bucket of water and wait 
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 27th, 2011, 2:16 pm
what so take out put cutting in watter?
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: January 27th, 2011, 4:42 pm
dig it out of the ground. Have a look at this site http://www.dugzbonsai.com/olivehead1.htm
Re: ID please, possible olive?
Posted: February 1st, 2011, 7:37 pm
OK, so I'll admit that it is not quite "tomorrow"Andrew Legg wrote:Give it some thought before you dig it up or cut it back. I'll post a pic of my olive tomorrow. Same type and I have trained it for about 2,5 to 3 years so far. It is still thin and needs plenty more work, but it is on its way to becoming a decent little tree. One nice thing I have found about olives is if you catch them early enough they bend well.
BUT, needless to say, here is a pic of an olive of mine. When I bought it about 3 years back it was a stick in a bag about 1cm wide at the bottom and with quite a few branches. I am very premature with putting my stuff in pots, but that's just me. I have put a serious bend into this tree and am now starting to work on pad definition. I must still place some of the pads and sort out the top, but I am getting there. I plan to do this in our next club workshop on the 9th Feb, so consider this the before and I'll post another photo afterwards - Hope you don't mind me doing so on this thread, but I thought it relevant as it had a similar starting point.The tree is about 40cms high by the way.
Cheers,
Andrew