01-28-2008, 12:58 AM
No. Cal is the second world producer next to Spain for olives and olive oil. In fact a Spanish investor just two years ago planted 600 acres here in our town.
The olives planted here are mostly manzanillo. They were brought here in the 1800's by missionaries.
Although they are not invasive here, they do need tending. An orchard that is let go lives on forever it seems as these are very long living trees. But if let go for too many years they start looking weedy like overgrown bushes, or berry thickets.
We have many boutique olive oiles here and wineries so grapes and olives thrive in the same climes.
These trees when tended make gorgeous landscape plants. grissled, grey green foliage, ropy and ancient looking trunks and beautiful limbs reaching out. Many older orchards that aren't being tended are being harvested and transplanted as landscape plants in cities like LV, LA the central valley just for their architectural presents in the landscape.
mella l
The olives planted here are mostly manzanillo. They were brought here in the 1800's by missionaries.
Although they are not invasive here, they do need tending. An orchard that is let go lives on forever it seems as these are very long living trees. But if let go for too many years they start looking weedy like overgrown bushes, or berry thickets.
We have many boutique olive oiles here and wineries so grapes and olives thrive in the same climes.
These trees when tended make gorgeous landscape plants. grissled, grey green foliage, ropy and ancient looking trunks and beautiful limbs reaching out. Many older orchards that aren't being tended are being harvested and transplanted as landscape plants in cities like LV, LA the central valley just for their architectural presents in the landscape.
mella l
mella l
Art and Science
bytheSEA
Art and Science
bytheSEA