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Olive pruning

AnguisFragilisAnguisFragilis Posts: 95
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I know nothing of olives but I’ve recently ended up with a small lollipop one. I want to prune it to encourage a more natural growth pattern. Is it the same as native trees where pruning the vertical stem will encouraging branching?

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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    That's what I do; just cut out the top.  It will never make as good a lollipop as a bay.  Much larger, relaxed and open.  But one has to go with the flow.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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