I am close to the boarder of of 8A/B for my zone. Does anyone know of any olive trees that will thrive in this climate zone? I live in south east Alabama
Olive trees are just starting to become somewhat popular in Central Texas, which runs along that zone line. I planted Aberquine, but there are also some compatible cross pollinators. There a lot of articles online if you do a search for olive trees in central Texas.
Neither of my trees are in a heat trap, and they've both survived two dry cold fronts this winter where very warm weather was followed in hours by several days of very cold weather. We were definitely in the teens for those. Any olive varieties recommended for my area have to be able to handle not just cold weather but extremely fast temperature fluctuations.
If you were a tree, what sort of tree would you be? This tiny ad is a poop beast.