Full Grown Fragrant Tea Olive Shrub
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Full grown fragrant tea olive shrub. Fragrant tea olives begin blooming in fall and in warm climates the blooms continue all winter. An orange blooming variety of tea olive osmanthus fragrans f. Grown as a shrub or limbed up over time into either a multi trunked or single trunked tree you ll love exploring the ways fragrant tea olive can decorate your landscape. Tea olives grow as dense evergreen shrubs or small trees.
Enjoy fragrant blooms and evergreen leaves for years to come sweet olive trees osmanthus fragrans grow as evergreen shrubs or trees with sweet smelling blooms in the winter and spring months. Individual flowers are tiny but noticeable since they bloom in clusters. And because the fragrant tea olive grows slowly its dense evergreen growth can be pruned into a hedge or shrub providing an effective and decorative screen that s adaptable to your needs. Their scent makes them ideal for planting near windows and outdoor living areas where the fall blooming flowers can be readily enjoyed.
Aurantiacus features citrusy fragrant blooms and is more cold hardy than most tea olives. An unforgettable fragrance merges with slow but steady growth making the tea olive tree a must have for your garden. Grows at a moderate. The fragrance has been compared to that of jasmine orange blossoms or peaches.
Where other fragrant plants only offer 1 month of aroma the fragrant tea olive blooms for 4 months and leaves an amazing fragrance that fills your yard. This shrub does well in full sun or part shade but in hot climates prefers part shade in the afternoon. The new southern living garden book describes the stats of the evergreen shrub this way long a favorite of southern gardeners tea olive is broad dense compact. It can tolerate clay loam or sandy soil but.
Apply a complete fertilizer such as. Plant your fragrant tea olive in rows 4 5 feet apart to create a lush thick privacy hedge. Popular as a useful screen or hedge plant the fragrant tea olive takes to pruning very well. Plant the tea olive bush in an area with full sun to partial shade.
Tea olives osmanthus species are some of the most sweetly fragrant plants in southern gardens. Their biggest bloom happens in the spring and summer but they also bloom intermittently throughout the year even in the final days of fall. The evergreen foliage is dark and leathery with toothed edges. Tea olive the small white blossoms of tea olive osmanthus fragrans have a delicious apricot scent.
Plus its glossy green leaves serve. Perfume for the garden why fragrant tea olive trees. Water the plant with 1 inch of water a week during the first growing season as it becomes established.