Palm and Olive Trees in Denmark in Winter

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Palm and Olive Trees in Denmark in Winter

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Post by canadianplant » Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:46 am

Olive trees are way tougher then we give them credit for. The fruit and buds cant take uch below 0C, but the trees themselves can take around 12F
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Post by TimMAz6 » Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:01 am

nice tropical garden in the Arctic! :D
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Post by lucky1 » Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:17 pm

Blew me away that he had potted olive trees on the patio.
Would young potted olives really survive that?
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Post by Henoh_Croatia » Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:32 am

lucky1 wrote:Blew me away that he had potted olive trees on the patio.
Would young potted olives really survive that?
No way! I've tried three different varieties of young olives, Italian Leccino and Ascolana tenera and Croatian Oblica olive, and failed every time. Success in colder climate requires old olive tree with a lot of wood mass. Young olive trees are too thin for prolonged periods of subzero temperatures.

Here is my atempt 2008

Leccino
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Oblica
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winter protection
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frost injuries
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February 2009
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Both olives was regenereted but they froze again in winter 2010 so i givet up
October 2009
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Leccino
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Old olives have a chance to survive. For example old olive trees in big pots here in Zagreb survive five winters in rol without injuries.

January 2009
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January 2013
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Post by sidpook » Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:56 am

TimMAz6 wrote:nice tropical garden in the Arctic! :D
Tim, don't speak too soon, You'll be in "the Arctic" this time tomorrow. Good luck! :?
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Post by sidpook » Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:58 am

Cool pics. We have olive trees here in NJ but not many edible ones. Either Russian Olive (all over the place) or ones that do give small olives, not sure of names.
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Post by lucky1 » Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:16 am

Young olive trees are too thin for prolonged periods of subzero temperatures.
Yes, that's what I would think.
And you're a 7b !

So obviously that potted Denmark olive is stone dead.

That Leccino was a pretty one, Henoh.
They were well protected and a good size too.

Makes me wonder how people got those mature ones to that size in the first place. :?

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Post by JackLord » Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:13 am

I have a Dogwood that is slowly succumbing to blight. As it is right next to the cactus and succulent sector, I would like to put an olive there. I don't care if it fruits- I hate olives. But it would look cool.

I have my doubts that it would make it though.

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Post by DesertZone » Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:44 am

lucky1 wrote: Makes me wonder how people got those mature ones to that size in the first place. :?

Barb
I was thinking that same thought, looks to me like they have frozen back a few times. :|
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Post by DesertZone » Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:49 am

JackLord wrote:I have a Dogwood that is slowly succumbing to blight. As it is right next to the cactus and succulent sector, I would like to put an olive there. I don't care if it fruits- I hate olives. But it would look cool.

I have my doubts that it would make it though.
There is a few good look a likes, and some natives from the olive family that can take much cold. My favotite look a like is Cercocarpus ledifolius. It stays evergreen. :wink:
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Post by JackLord » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:15 am

DesertZone wrote:
JackLord wrote:I have a Dogwood that is slowly succumbing to blight. As it is right next to the cactus and succulent sector, I would like to put an olive there. I don't care if it fruits- I hate olives. But it would look cool.

I have my doubts that it would make it though.
There is a few good look a likes, and some natives from the olive family that can take much cold. My favotite look a like is Cercocarpus ledifolius. It stays evergreen. :wink:
Interesting.

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