Medium Size Olive Shipping
We can trees 8 to 10 feet tall nearly anywhere using FedEx or LTL trucking. Trimmed back in our regular shipping boxes, larger plants are can be sent fully branched out in crates. This is a little photo essay of a recent customer project for an episode of the Today Show on 10-12-06, with major changes and a huge effort to adapt to their ever changing requirements. You try making sure that cargo is at someone's door at 2am, that's right that is 2 in the morning!(10-2006 - Chris)
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| A lot of olives on this plant, we have many types of fruiting and non-fruiting olive trees. Plants are then treated with our polymer spray to prevent drying out during shipping. | Can you believe that the customer changed their mind after we got these beautiful trees ready to ship? "He" wanted an olive fruit with a different shape. Two days of tree hunting and we found his tree, a Picaul Olive, from Spain. |
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| We found 3 growers, but only Jeff (above) had any Picaul olive trees with fruit on them. Jeff showing one of his many olive tree varieties, this is Koroneiki olive, the produce heavy loads of olives. He grew the trees that were prepared for shipping to New York for an episode of the Today Show on October 12, 2006. It was a program about cooking with SPANISH olive oil, or as the the chef said, "OLIVE OIL FROM SPAIN," I could hear that guy from NY and I did even need the tv. | Arbequnia olive fruit, a great plant for your container garden or landscape. A very flexible plant. To get fruit on you container grown olive tree, use Arbequnia for your starter plant, they are self pollinating. The trees need to be cold for the winter, leave outside until temperatures get into the mid 20's. |
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| The fruit of a Pendolino olive tree, an important
pollinator for Frantoio and Leccino olive trees. Pendolino
is a cultivar widely appreciated by growers for its high fruit
production and plays a crucial role as an excellent pollinator, both for
table and oil cultivars. |
The fruit of a Picual olive tree. This olive is mostly used for making olive oil, the oil is said to have a very strong flavor, preferred in the Middle East. It was the tree chosen by our client Hall Event Group and their client. The olives (drupes for Olive people) are picked black and furnish an oil that is considered to be of very good quality in Spain. |
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| Lay trees over, hit the outside of the container to loosen the soil inside the container. Then slide the tree out of the container. | Comb through the soil of the root ball with your fingers. This will help the olive tree properly root into the ground. These Picual olive trees were ground in redwood mulch and lava rock, so we had to take a lot of this heavy soil mix out to make the shipping less costly. |
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| A multi trunk planting of Picual olive trees in a 25
gallon container. rustic cultivar that adapts to
diverse environmental conditions. Picual reacts well to regenerative
pruning because of its capacity to sprout new growth. Our customer
wanted 3 to 4 trees per container for their appearance on the morning
show. |
Picual olive trees are vigorous plants with an expansive crown. We used 4 trees to give a real good full appearance. This variety has an open shape and branches in a square rectangular pattern. The small branches have leaves at close spacing that are elliptical-lanceolate in shape and of a brilliant green color. |
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| The tubs are then watered and anchored into the crate. The crate closed up and a plastic tent installed on it to keep the humidity up high. | Mulching trees planted in pots or in the ground is a big part of our tree care program. Here at the nursery we use fresh horse manure and compost to top dress the pots of our trees. |
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| Roses go great with most olive trees, here I am holding a Passionate Kisses, an excellent warm pink floribunda, we sell potted or bare root plants. | David showing off his rose, he help grow, and the crate he helped build. |
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| 16 olive trees, packed and arranged for shipping.16 Picual olive trees on their way to New York City. | We send most of our olive trees in smaller boxes. |
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| These 25 gallon Arbequnia olive trees are already producing strong crops of olive fruit. Plants are $325.00 each | Kalamata olives, among the finest olives grown, large trees (7 ft x 6 ft and heavy fruiting) start from $1350.00 |
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| These fruit ready Manzanillo olive trees were delivered to Malibu, they can shipped anywhere where olive lovers want trees. We did a large, very large, 36" Olive tree to an estate in Nashville, Ten. for large indoor garden in the Fall of 2005. | They were part of large plant order for this custom built home. We maintain a data base of over 13,000 plants for shipping in the USA. |