Olive Martini Elaeagnus – 2 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones:  6a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub

Flower Color:  White

Flower Size:  Small

Flowering Period:  Summer

Flower Type: 

Fragrant Flowers:  Yes

Foliage Color:  Dark Green, Yellow

Berries/Pods:  No

Berry/Pod Color:  NA

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect

Fast growing, fragrant flowers, colorful foliage – what more can we ask for in a hedge shrub? Meet Olive Martini Elaeganus; the perfect shrub for a super-dense, impenetrable privacy hedge or barrier. Leathery evergreen leaves of olive green bordered with a creamy golden-yellow highlight Olive Martini when used as a hedge or as a specimen plant. Orange-brown twigs contrast nicely with the leaves and deepen in color as colder weather sets in in the fall.  

 

Apart from the colorful foliage, this plant is also interesting for its almost invisible but very fragrant flowers. They are tiny and appear from late summer to early autumn. They have a lovely, sweet perfume that is distributed especially on sunny and warm afternoons and evenings. The flowers are followed by edible, deep red oval fruits that taste like sweet dark cherries. It is best to let the fruits ripen well, which is when they begin to fall from the plant.

Olive Martini was originally found by Christian Vivies in Toulouse, France, as a natural mutation of Elaeagnus x ebbingei.

Elaeagnus is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average to low fertility and full sun to part shade. As with so many other shrubs it does not like a constantly soggy or wet soil, which can be problematic. Established plants are exceptionally drought tolerant. Elaeagnus prefers full to mostly sun however will tolerate a fair amount of shade. Foliage is more dense with more sun.

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