Osmanthus fragrans are blooming (Sweet Olive tree)
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Does anyone have a fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans)
Comments (11)in my experience with tea olive, the fragrance can be strong at times, depending on weather conditions. when mine flowers (fall and winter here), if i am near it in the early mornings or at night when it is cool and perhaps damp from dew, i can not detect a fragrance. however, as the air warms and especially on dry autumn days with high air pressure, it will waft a long distance from the shrub, smelling just like apricots to me. also notice the same scenario with nicotiana and even petunias. check the box store garden centers in your area. they stock them here (i want to say about $6.00 for a 2' tall plant)and they should be blooming now....See MoreSweet Olive (Osmanthus Fragrans) Questions
Comments (9)I have a small one that I received as a rooted cutting last year. I have not fertilized it at all. It spent the fall, winter and early spring in front of a sunny south-facing window. The flowers were so tiny they were almost invisible, but the fragrance was incredible. It stopped blooming in mid-spring and I brought it outside. It has shown a little new growth and is starting to bloom again. I just checked your trades list and saw that you hadn't listed anything. I would dearly love to get a bunch of cuttings from you. Since the plants grow so lushly where you are, I was thinking that you could just make a bunch of cuttings from branches that overhang the sidewalk! (Don't get arrested.) Would you like some white tb irises? Pink gladiolas? Styrax japonicus? Loquat? I have lots of things I could trade. I just want to try to get some more plants and no one seems to be trading rooted cuttings or plants at the moment. Ginny...See Moreosmanthus fragrans aka sweet/tea olive in alkaline soil
Comments (12)Hi Lou and all. I've had one growing in unimproved thin alkaline 'soil' over limestone at my place for nearly 20 years. Not knowing any better at that time I just dug a hole and plopped it in. It is in a shady spot next to the house right outside my kitchen window and is taller than the overhang. Amazingly I rarely give it extra water or even fertilize it. It gets water off the roof when it rains. It is a dark green and blooms from now until spring and sporatically after that. Here is a clickable thumbnail photo I just now took: It might grow larger and fuller and produce bigger blooms in improved soil, but I have no complaints about it. The blooms are very fragrant, but I don't find that the fragrance wafts much, but that is probably due to a lack in my 'smeller.' Happy gardening!...See MoreWANTED: osmanthus fragrans (sweet olive)
Comments (2)I have the white and the orange flowering osmanthus. I can send cuttings or start some this spring to send to you next fall. What zone are you in?...See Morematt38
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