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Help - olive tree morph!

emmaowenjones · 2021-03-17 16:13:07

Hi, I have a standard ball olive tree that I bought and planted in a large pot indoors. It relatively quickly began losing leaves but then we noticed a lot of new growth. As these leaves and branches have shot out, they look nothing like olive leaves and are larger, shinier and flexible, with branches that flop over,…

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Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

March 2021

The narrower leaves are all that the olive tree needs when it's in a suitable situation with high light levels ..... I'm afraid your tree is struggling for light like we would struggle for food in a famine. It is very unhappy.

Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.

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