If your tree’s looking worse for wear in the spring – lacking verdancy or showing stunted growth – it might benefit from an ...

Transplanting older olive trees can also be a history lesson. Be sure to explain to the kids how these same genes produced an oil that fueled the expansion of Greece and Rome millennia ago ...

So, if you’re looking for easy, low-fuss fruiting trees for containers, learning how to grow olive trees in pots is a good idea. Here's everything I know about growing these tough and resilient ...

SPATA, Greece — In an olive grove on the outskirts of Athens, grower Konstantinos Markou pushes aside the shoots of new growth to reveal the stump of a tree — a roughly 150-year-old specimen, he said, ...

Q: I received a 2-year-old olive tree grown in a 15-inch container. The brochure attached advised planting in the ground 15 feet away from building structures. My tree is 5 feet high with a ½ ...

In 1999 I planted nine Manzanillo olive trees. Over the years I’ve added another 14 trees and they are all still alive and producing fruit for olive oil. My early success relied more on dumb ...