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Olives are evergreen trees and olive gardens make a superb all-year-round garden statement of peace and prosperity. Olive trees grow well in sub-tropical and temperate areas in most of the UK with an optimum temperature range of 5-25°C. They need long, hot summers for the fruits to ripen fully, followed by winter temperatures that are low enough to meet the chilling requirement of the specific cultivar. Although mature trees are remarkably frost tolerant, young olive plants are not fully hardy. So to be completely safe container grown plants can be placed outdoors in the summer and brought into a cold greenhouse or conservatory for winter protection. You can buy mature olive trees from us to make a great olive garden.
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Yes... they can be grown more successfully in some places than others - you may have luck in Devon or Cornwall (where some grow already) but won't in say the Outer Hebrides. The people that be predict that over the next few decades there will be many more olive groves and the like springing up and being successful along the English Riviera because of the changing climate.
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We have a very small olive tree in our garden but we have not had and olives yet.They say due to climate change more tree's will be planted in the UK.
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