olive

I bought this olive on eBay in summer of 2019. It’s basically a chunk of wood with a living portion. Old olive stumps have an ability to grow roots where they’re in contact with soil and shoots from living areas above the soil. The back side looks like a piece of firewood, but from this...

I am planning to air layer my olive in spring and looking for some advice whether what I'm planning on doing is viable. I want to put the layering pod up as high as possible under the branches to end up with a nice short trunk on the layered tree. This will leave me with a tall trunk to later...

Yesterday I removed several thick cuttings from my European Olive because I'm removing a branch. I've potted them up in a mix of about 50/50 potting soil and pumice. The containers all have drainage holes in the bottom and sides. I trimmed much of the foliage, covered the major cuts with putty...

Here's my first olive bonsai tree. I bought this yamadori tree from a bonsai garden and crafted in a training course. What are your thoughts?

I'm looking for advice on how to best airlayer a large T shaped branch on a European Olive (see photos). Questions below. Any tips or info on how long it will likely take would be greatly appreciated too. Here's my current plan: Make cuts on the branch at the red lines shown in the photos...

I got this little raft from Kathy Oyoung, Modesto Bonsai Club some time back( I traded her a nifty little Hanna tray style pot) and decided to plant this group this AM…. No wires yet, as it’s too fragile… in a few months when it is settled in some wiring and such! PS: Hanna pot..hah!

This is a young olive I grew from seed (yes, seed). I think it's like 4-5 years old. The trunk is a bit discolored, not sure why. Not sure if that renders it ugly for life. I recently pruned it and it's growing new leaves, but the pruning clearly hurt it, as there are some dead/dying leaves near...

I recently purchased an olive bonsai tree for a great deal on Instagram from a small, unknown company. The tree was shipped bare-rooted with sand soil, so I repotted it in the largest bonsai pot I own with an inorganic mix of pumice and akadama. There is still some green under the bark, so there...

My neighborhood has a path around it with landscaping that is maintained by the HOA. We have probably 50 olive trees lining the street into the neighborhood. When the olive trees fruit, the crows like to eat them, then they drop olive seeds all over the neighborhood. I was walking the path and...

The next-door neighbours had dug this 20-year-old olive out of their garden and threw it in the skip. I saw it and took it in. It is about 6in diameter at the base with some roots intact. It has no leaves on it as the top has been chopped off completely. I'm in UK and new to Bonsai. I have read...

Hi bonsai lovers, There’s a huge olive stump/growth at the base of a tree at work. I’ve never seen it with foliage and I’m wondering if it’s even alive. I’ve dug down a bit and found some old roots but there’s some rot on the trunk. Would it be possible to dig it up, saw it off, and get it to...

Olive that was collected early Spring 2020 and had its first styling. Long term project, however, the base is beautiful! After collection (early March 2020) Growing season's growth, it's ready for some work! After selective pruning After wiring (more pruning was done to finalize my...

I have a friend who emigrated to New Zealand from South Africa in Nov 19. He asked me to take over his bonsai collection and one of the trees was this olive yamadori that he had dug out in the Eastern Cape. I wasn't too sure on which direction I would take it as the lower branch was really...

I have a nice midsize olive that i got from a ladies yard last spring. potted it up with as little disturbance as I could, since she had already ripped it out and unceremoniously dumped it in the street, poor thing so now 6 months on, it seems content and growing, honestly took the whole move...

Hey All. Local bonsai club tipped us off to some nice 2 inch Olives at a local nursery. After going through the stock in 103 degree temps, this is the shrub I went with. That being said, I know this isn’t a perfect specimen and many of you would pass or not waste your time. Looking for some...

I'd like some opinions on repoting an European Olive. I have the info, from a number of sources online, the why and when is fine by me.. best repoted in summer, during active growth and repoted as little as possible as they don't like it. What I am looking for is some people's experience of...

Hello, Over winter my olive developed quite pale leaves, see pic. I think these leaves must have been present from last year but over winter it’s just slowly discoloured.. it’s currently getting good sun but as it’s an olive it won’t start actively growing till we are in to summer.. Is this...

This is the oldest tree I still have alive. I've had it for the last 4 or 5 years & it is starting to put on "bark" but I never felt it has the "vigor" That should characterize olives not sure why It was repoted this year (3 few weeks ago) Tree today I love the tree and feel it has...

I picked up this Olive from a local nursery, has a pretty cool twin trunk thinking I'll plant it out to thicken it up a bit over a couple of years then I should have a really nice tree.

Hey nuts, I got an email about a soon to be bulldozed olive tree nearby and had to go for it. Total cost of the Day was $32 spent on an ax and I’m pretty happy with what I was able to collect. Some pictures below more the olive album I posted. If all goes well, I will have 5 new olives to...

Hey bn, Thought I'd share these new olive treees I bought at the last local bonsai group auction. Should be fun this coming fall and spring. There are three different trees in the pictures

Bought an olive for 15$ And ended it ended up being two seperate trees and this is one of them. Because of all of the branches in one area it created a natural swelling but it makes a nice sumo style olvie. I plan on makeing a dead wood feature out of the long portion for interest but...

Hello, I'd like to introduce you to the his fella. I have some thoughts about the future for him, and few little questions but I thought I would just stick him on here first then see what people think. He was repotted less than a month ago, had some wiring done to him, most has now been...

Hello, I just wanted to dump in a load of pics of a few lovely trees that I picked up from BobbyLane. Thanks again to him :). There's a link to the whole album with multiple of each tree, but I will just post 1 pic of each on here, as to not take up too much space. These were all re-potted...