Chalkdiki is a famous olive from Greece that produces particularly large olives that have an excellent meaty texture and great flavor.

Latin Name: Olea europaea
Site and Soil: Olives like a warm, protected location with 1/2 day to full sun and well drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: Arbequina is self-fertile, though crops will likely be heavier with another variety nearby. Olives are wind pollinated and should be planted no more than 20 ft. apart. You can assist pollination by moving pollen from flower to flower with a small brush.
Hardiness: Arbequina olive is hardy to 10° F. or below.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 8-10 ft. in height (20 + feet without pruning)
Bloom Time: May
Ripening Time: October
Yield: 20+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Our Olives have not been bothered by pests or diseases
USDA Zone: 8

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A very tough and unique bottlebrush from Tasmania, the Green Bottlebrush is among the most hardy of the genus and unlike any other plant in the garden. The foliage looks something like a mix between a conifer and an olive tree on grey-white stems and the flowers are an amazing lime green. Unique and very easy to grow in full sun with well-drained soils.

Latin Name: Callistemon viridiflorus
Site and Soil: Half-day to full-day sun, and well-drained soil. Quite drought resistant once established.
Hardiness: Hardy to about 5° F
Size at Maturity: 5-8′ tall & 4-6′ wide
Bloom Time: April
USDA Zone: 7a

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A prized olive oil variety, Bouteillan Olive Tree is a cold hardy French variety that is used exclusively for oil production in southern France. Fully self-fertile, very cold hardy and ripens mid season. When fully ripe, the fruit becomes  burgundy in color. 

Growing Info:

Latin Name: Olea europaea
Site and Soil: Olives like a warm, protected location with 1/2 day to full sun and well drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: Self-Fertile
Hardiness: Hardy to at least 10° F.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 10-20 ft. in height but smaller with pruning
Bloom Time: May
Ripening Time: September
Yield: 20+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Our Olives have not been bothered by pests or diseases
USDA Zone: 8

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Aglandau Olive Tree is a vigorous and cold hardy French variety that is prized for the intense fruitiness it imparts to oils or as a table olive. It is often blended with other varieties for olive oil for its flavor and also because it keeps for a very long time. Self incompatible so be sure to plant another variety for cross pollination. We also love this variety for its silvery blue foliage.

Latin Name: Olea europaea
Site and Soil: Olives like a warm, protected location with 1/2 day to full sun and well drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: Self incompatible so be sure to plant another variety for cross pollination. Olives are wind pollinated and should be planted no more than 20 ft. apart. You can assist pollination by moving pollen from flower to flower with a small brush.
Hardiness: Aglandau Olive Tree is hardy to 10° F. or below.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting
Size at Maturity: Up to 20 ft. in height
Bloom Time: May
Ripening Time: October
Yield: 20+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Our Olives have not been bothered by pests or diseases
USDA Zone: 8-11
Sunset Western Zone: 8, 9, 11-24, H1, H2
Sunset Northeast Zone: Not listed

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Our banana beanies will keep your head as warm as it would be in the tropics. These hats are practical for keeping your head warm during winter pruning and early spring plantings, and have a fun new Banana Tree design embroidered on the fold. Made with recycled polyester fibers to reduce environmental impact.Comes in four different colors and made with recycled polyester fibers to reduce environmental impact.

Colors include Olive, Navy, Mustard, and Light Grey.

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Grow these surprisingly cold hardy, evergreen trees and enjoy your own home-grown olives! This 4-tree olive tree bundle is perfect for cross pollination that ensures abundant olives. Olives grow slowly, but will add much ornamental value to your yard. They can be easily processed into the tasty cured olives and oil we all love.

1 x Premier Olive Tree

From the Nikita Botanic Garden in Yalta, Ukraine, Premier is under evaluation in our region. Premier is valued for its good crops of very large, tasty fruit.

1 x Harvest Joy Olive Tree

From the Nikita Botanic Garden in Yalta, Ukraine, Harvest Joy Olive Tree is under evaluation in our region. Harvest Joy is prized for its abundant crops of large, tasty fruit.

1 x Leccino Olive Tree

This hardy, unique and classic Italian olive variety is prized for its attractive, semi-weeping form and its early ripening, large and tasty fruit.

1 x Arbequina Olive Tree

Arbequina a valuable Spanish variety. It is a very attractive and a naturally compact tree. Self-fertile and early ripening, Arbequina often begins bearing the year after planting and makes gourmet quality olives and oil.

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Latin Name: Olea europaea
Site and Soil: Full sun and lots of warmth.
Pollination Requirements: Olives are wind-pollinized; pollination can be assisted by moving pollen from flower to flower with a small brush.
Hardiness: Hardy to about 5-10º F.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 8-15 ft. in height.
Fruit Skin: Green, black if allowed to ripen longer
Taste: Aromatic
Bloom Time: May-June
Ripening Time: October
Yield: 30-40 pounds depending on your climate
Pests & Diseases: Olive Trees will occasionally get scales and in some climates are susceptible to Cercospora leaf spot but we have seen neither of those so far while growing olives in Oregon.
USDA Zone: 8

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One of the best table olives, Santa Caterina is beloved throughout the Mediterranean and is gaining popularity as plants become available here in the U.S. Trees are quite vigorous with a nice rounded crown and fruits are especially large. It is reportedly quite cold hardy and very early ripening.

Growing Info:

Latin Name: Olea europaea
Site and Soil: Olives like a warm, protected location with 1/2 day to full sun and well drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: Santa Caterina requires another olive nearby for cross-pollination. Olives are wind pollinated and should be planted no more than 20 ft. apart.
Hardiness: Hardy to at least 10° F., lower once established.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 10-20 ft. in height but smaller with pruning
Bloom Time: May
Ripening Time: September
Yield: 20+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Our Olives have not been bothered by pests or diseases
USDA Zone: 7b

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And what a tsunami it was! On top of the usual craziness of the season, it seems we always have some unforeseen event that throws a massive wrench in our operations. A few years ago the road was torn up so our retail customers and shipping trucks couldn’t access the nursery. Last year of course was navigating operations during the pandemic. And this year we were forced to tear up the entire front of the nursery for all of spring. Half of our usable space was gone and we had to shut down for many days while we anxiously watched a sewer construction crew tear apart the fences, tables, and plantings we’d worked so hard on creating the past few years. There are few things more torturous to me than digging up a prized plant we’d worked so hard to establish at the absolute worst time of year to dig them up and then watch many of them slowly die after being cut back hard and put in pots. During what is already the most chaotic time of the year, the Nursery Gods saw fit to turn the chaos dial to 11. Cavernous mote-like trenches welcomed our customers and the massive piles of soil and heavy machinery (that would sit inexplicably for many days at a time without work being done…) became the look of our nursery for so long this spring that we just got used to them being there. We forgot that plants used to live in the places where our giant soil and rock piles were. 

But there were a few very tiny silver linings through all of it. When else would we get the opportunity to dig a big soil pit and see what the soil horizons look like 12 feet down? Turns out it’s a whole lot of boulders gifted to us by the Missoula floods. Massive boulders that certainly help our drainage, and if these mulberries are any indicator, don’t seem to inhibit root growth. 

It’s wild how deep the root system is on these after only being in the ground for a few years! 

And look how nicely the Chilean Flame Tree’s stunning flowers matched the construction fencing and paint on the excavator…

Yeah, we were really scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for a silver lining on this situation.

And then, like clockwork, as soon as the spring season was winding down and we had our big end of the year barbeque the sewer construction project was finished! As if the Nursery Gods truly were just toying with us the whole time. Now for the work of replanting everything and getting the nursery put back together…

We have to send out a huge thank you to all our retail customers who navigated the nursery through all of this, called us from the gate when dump trucks blocked the entrance so we could bring out their plants, dealt with all the disorganization it caused, and still came to see us on the weekends and keep us going! We learn so much from our customers and you all inspire us to keep finding new varieties, bring back old ones and make this green world a better place to live. It’s been an insane last two years navigating the pandemic but we’re looking forward to seeing your full smiling faces once again soon, starting up classes and getting to interact like regular humans again! Thanks for all your patience and understanding throughout this wild time, and most importantly for keeping those gardens growing. After all this time spent at home, we’re hoping everybody comes away with a deeper connection to their plants and gardens and the satisfaction in knowing you can escape to any part of the world you want to with the right arrangement of plants. 

All of this time spent in town also meant we basically did nothing but work and we have a ton of new plants to show for it! We’re gearing up for our biggest growing season yet, with many varieties that have been in the works for years finally being introduced. We’re very excited about what’s coming for summertime and hope you’ll come visit us for what is our favorite time of the year at the nursery!

We’ve gone a little crazy with new fig varieties as of late. The list of stock plants is a bit dizzying, but we’ll be releasing some this year that we’ve been trialing for years and we are very excited for you all to try them in your gardens. Big Steve has potted up so many this year that he’s seeing figs in his dreams now. Perhaps it’s proof that it’s time to shift our focus to a new species.

We’ve tracked down a handful of varieties besides just Panache that have variegated figs! Many of them ripen too late for our season, but the allure of their striped beauty is just too much! We have a good crop of Martinenca Rimada coming on, (not pictured above, that one is for a later date), and we’re hoping this early season heat we’re getting will allow the fruits to ripen outside of just the trees in the greenhouses.

Though the above variegation is most likely not stable, it’s still fun to see a slightly variegated leaf in the rows every now and then!

While we haven’t been able to travel internationally the past year and a half, we’ve had a great time seeking out plants all along the West Coast. In the “Wasp Zone” of California, wild fig seedlings pop up in drainages all over the northern part of the state. We’ve found some really incredible figs, and some not so edible caprifigs, and now we engage in the anticipatory torture of seeing if they will be parthenocarpic, or common, figs and produce in Oregon without the fig wasp to pollinate them. So far, results have been whole heartedly disappointing with most plants teasing us with tons of developing fruits only to drop them after many weeks. Ugh…. We’ll keep trying though. One of the good ones has got to be common!

Keep an eye out for these as well as many new varieties of pomegranates, olives, citrus and a whole smorgasbord of plants we’ve never sold before but have long been favorites in our gardens. It’s a big old green world out there and we’ll be doing our best to bring as many of our favorite plants as we can to you all this summer. Thank you for all the support and we hope to see you soon!

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Legacy Olive Tree

Latin Name: Olea europaea
Site and Soil: Olives like a warm, protected location with 1/2 day to full sun and well drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: Requires another olive nearby for cross-pollination. Olives are wind pollinated and should be planted no more than 20 ft. apart.
Hardiness: Nikita Jubilee is hardy to at least 10° F., lower once established.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 10-20 ft. in height but smaller with pruning
Bloom Time: May
Ripening Time: October
Yield: 20+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Our Olives have not been bothered by pests or diseases
USDA Zone: 7

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A unique and valuable Italian heirloom olive, Ascolana Tenera produces very large olives with a tender, meaty and sweet flesh that is excellent for fresh eating, (after brining them of course). Similar to the Castelvetrano olives for their delicious fresh eating qualities, Ascolana Tenera is also used to make a signature Italian snack called olive all’ascolana in which the olives are pitted, stuffed with a seasoned meat and then battered and fried. Delicious! Plants are quite cold hardy and the olives are also valued for making a delicate and fragrant olive oil.

Latin Name: Olea europaea
Site and Soil: Olives like a warm, protected location with 1/2 day to full sun and well drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: Requires another olive nearby for cross-pollination. Olives are wind pollinated and should be planted no more than 20 ft. apart.
Hardiness: Hardy to at least 10° F., lower once established.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 10-20 ft. in height but smaller with pruning
Bloom Time: May
Ripening Time: October
Yield: 20+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Our Olives have not been bothered by pests or diseases
USDA Zone: 7

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