26+ Full Grown Fragrant Tea Olive Shrub

Aurantiacus features citrusy fragrant blooms and is more cold hardy than most tea olives.

Full grown fragrant tea olive shrub. Plant your fragrant tea olive in rows 4 5 feet apart to create a lush thick privacy hedge. 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. A versatile plant this selection has many applications in the landscape. 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. Plus its glossy green leaves serve. The fragrance has been compared to that of jasmine orange blossoms or peaches. One of the most refreshing signs of fall and spring is the unique and memorable fragrance of tea olive in full bloom.

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. 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. Water the plant with 1 inch of water a week during the first growing season as it becomes established. This shrub does well in full sun or part shade but in hot climates prefers part shade in the afternoon. Their scent makes them ideal for planting near windows and outdoor living areas where the fall blooming flowers can be readily enjoyed. Plant the tea olive bush in an area with full sun to partial shade. How to care for a tea olive shrub 1.

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. Perfume for the garden why fragrant tea olive trees. An unforgettable fragrance merges with slow but steady growth making the tea olive tree a must have for your garden. It can tolerate clay loam or sandy soil but. Tea olives osmanthus species are some of the most sweetly fragrant plants in southern gardens. An orange blooming variety of tea olive osmanthus fragrans f.

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. Tea olives grow as dense evergreen shrubs or small trees. Apply a complete fertilizer such as. Grows at a moderate. Individual flowers are tiny but noticeable since they bloom in clusters. Popular as a useful screen or hedge plant the fragrant tea olive takes to pruning very well.