A question for Dan Gill: Our sweet olive has been in the ground about four years and is about 6 feet tall. We've heard these trees can grow to be about 12 to 14 feet tall. I'd like to prune off some ...

Ideas for launching a garden column have been swirling around in my head. Should the introduction be about the Arkansas River valley’s ideal climate, gardening by our ancestors, tips on killing weeds, ...

A fragrant Sweet Olive bush growing in New Orleans. (CHRIS GRANGER) QUESTION: I have a sweet olive bush/tree in my backyard. The plant was about 2 feet tall when planted and has grown to about 5 1/2 ...

I recently visited The Flower Bed Nursery in Lumberton, Mississippi, where I admired a magnificent Sweet Olive tree that stood gracefully at the entrance. Known scientifically as Osmanthus fragrans, ...

When you grow an olive tree from a pit, the tree you cultivate will not be a replica of the original. “Olive trees grown from pits are genetically different from ...

I don’t see them regularly, but I often smell them. The flowers of the sweet olive (Osmanthus fragrans), which appear in fall ...

Most gardeners can't narrow their list of favorite plants to one. However, we can have a list of a dozen favorites, although even that number is hard to limit. High on my list is the sweet olive ...

We lack the dry, Mediterranean climate and punishing sunshine that support the growth of true olives around here. It is too cold, wet (normally) and humid to sustain such ventures. Autumn does bring a ...

I recently lectured at the Southern Garden Symposium at the Grace Episcopal Church in bucolic St. Francisville, Louisiana. If you've never been, the stately and historic brick church is surrounded by ...

While the sentinel trees of Northern Lebanon may not be as old as some traditions hold, one tree might be more than 1,000 years old. By Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei has previously reported on the ...