European Olive Bonsai Olive Tree
Artist gabriel romero aguade.
European olive bonsai olive tree. It has narrow shiny and leather like oval shaped leaves. The european olive bonsai or olea europaea is a type of evergreen plant native to europe and parts of the middle east and africa. This tree was styled by erik wigert owner of wigert s bonsai nursery in north ft myers florida. Its leaves are narrow shiny and leather like and the plant.
The olive is a tree commonly found in mediterranean countries where it has a long cultivation tradition and also symbolic importance. Olive flowering bonsai tree have a strong trunk growth fine roots and ability to produce fruit with proper care. The climate there is much like that of the native climate for this tree. Description of the olive bonsai the olive tree is a mediterranean tree par excellence and in bonsai it is no less.
Olive trees are well ramified evergreen trees or shrubs and depending on the variety can become up to 10 or even 20 meters 33 to 66 ft tall. Bonsai flowers can tolerate many weather conditions including hot and dry weather. This is a popular bonsai tree in europe and elsewhere. Excellent olive bonsai subjects can be made from olea europa also known as the mediterranean olive.
Admired because it is a very slow grower. Olive likes full partial sun and moderate water and fertilizer. Ginta leads us through the pruning and repotting of this field grown olive olive olivo that will be pruned and then repotted into a ceramic bonsai pot. European olive is incredible bonsai material that is very very old and with tiny leaves.
Since the 4th millennium bc it is cultivated for its fruit. Olive likes full partial sun and moderate water and fertilizer. It is an almost immortal tree that is reborn season after season renewing very fine roots compared to the trunk and branches. They are evergreen trees and shrubs with small opposite entire leaves.
Cold hardy zones 9 11. With its rough gray bark and flexible branches its suitable to all sizes and styles of bonsai cultivation. The tree forms white flowers before producing olive fruits. Same olive tree a couple of years later less than 10 years taxonomy olea is a genus of about 20 species in the family oleaceae native to warm temperate and tropical regions of southern europe africa southern asia and australasia.
It requires being located outside and receiving a constant bath of sun and heat. In 2008 at the 1st national bonsai exhibition in rochester ny he was awarded best tropical bonsai for his purple bougainvillea.