Olive Tree Tea Garden
It is hardy to about 10 or 15 zones 8 10.
Olive tree tea garden. In height and width but is most often seen at 10 to 12 ft. Sweet osmanthus should be grown in full sun or partial shade in well drained soil. They re relatively tough low maintenance and drought tolerant once established. Popular tea olive tree varieties.
1 teapot 2 tea cup fresh olive leaves hot water enjoy your fresh tea. These trees add not only aesthetic interest to a gardening space but also a prized fragrance that can liven up your landscape or contribute to bringing the outdoors into your home if a breeze from the garden wafts through the window. What s that fragrance perfuming the garden air. Tea olives grow as dense evergreen shrubs or small trees.
Tea olive trees are evergreen plants prized for their appealing scent and visually attractive flowers and foliage. Commonly you can call the plant tea olive or sweet olive as both names nod to the sweet scent emitted by the plant s tiny white blooms. Most respond well to pruning so they can be grown as specimen trees shrubs or hedges. The tea olive has a medium growth rate and is capable of reaching 20 to 25 ft.
Plant in sun to partial shade. It s tea olive the glossy leaved shrub known by the scientific name osmanthus fragrans. How to make olive tea from fresh olive leaves direct from your garden materials. In early fall and again in early spring tea olive unfurls clusters of tiny creamy white flowers with a permeating fragrance often described as a cross between gardenia and jasmine.
Tea olives osmanthus species are some of the most sweetly fragrant plants in southern gardens. The tea olive s dense foliage provides a high contrast backdrop for the tree s best feature its flowers. There are more than 20 tea olive tree cultivars and most offer year round interest in the form of evergreen foliage flowers and fragrance.