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-inch ...

You can plant an olive pit and grow an olive tree either indoors or outside. Use an olive pit from an organic tree, rather than from a jar of olives you got at the store. Be patient! It can take years ...

Olive trees need full sun, which is considered 6 or more hours of direct sunlight per day. They grow well indoors in a bright ...

Olive trees are ideally suited to hot and dry climates and can be very versatile plants for any backyard. They can grow in beds or borders, and are one of the best trees for small gardens, while they ...

An olive tree can actually live quite happily with very little pruning. A trim when needed, especially for the Lollipop or Pom Pom variety of olive tree, will do them wonders and keep them looking ...

The olive tree occupies such a heroic place in history that it feels trivial, even sacrilegious, to describe it as an ornamental plant. But the slender gray-green leaves could scarcely be lovelier. No ...

Christmas trees fill homes with woodsy fragrance during the holidays. Cut trees last for weeks, if kept in water. Container-grown trees can be enjoyed indoors for a week, then planted outside to grow ...