Wild olive

Hi too all of you!
Here I would like to show you the development of my only (sadly) olive tree.

Thi is how it looked when still owned by Karl Thier from Austria. (photo by Karl Thier)


When I got it from him last year it looked like this.


After first stlying, also in spring 2008.


Summer 2008


And this is from spring 2009 when I planted it in a better pot and adjusted the crown a bit.


And on it's first exhibition in Udine, Italy.



This one is very dere to me and I hope you will like it too.

Hi, Nik - Nice work on this tree. I hope it continues to develop so well for you, and thanks for posting about it.

Just for fun............

__gary

Nik, I like your tree. I remember seeing it on another post a year or so ago.
What I see for this tree is a bigger canopy to go with the massive trunk. Something like the live oaks we see on the coast of South Carolina.
I love the look of the old olive trees, I would love to have one in my collection.
Good luck with this one and keep us posted on its changes.
Ken

Garykk wrote:Just for fun............

__gary

Gary I ... ...will take this relly just for fun.

kenduncan wrote:Nik, I like your tree. I remember seeing it on another post a year or so ago.
What I see for this tree is a bigger canopy to go with the massive trunk. Something like the live oaks we see on the coast of South Carolina.
I love the look of the old olive trees, I would love to have one in my collection.
Good luck with this one and keep us posted on its changes.
Ken

Could be that you saw it Ken.
But for this one I'll just make the crown denser.

That's very good work, and the tree looks fairly natural.

I agree with kenduncan, I would see a larger, a bit more rounded top, but this is your tree, and it looks very nice like that.

Summer 2008 is my favorite image of this tree.

What would you think about removeing the jin from the trunk replaced with sheri??? just a thougt john

moyogijohn wrote:What would you think about removeing the jin from the trunk replaced with sheri??? just a thougt john

Look at the first and the last image and you will see that I allredy shortened one jin (actually two but the other one is on the back side). The 'last one standing' gives the shari a nice start (or finish). I think I won't remove it.
But thanks for the tip any way.

Nik Rozman wrote:Look at the first and the last image and you will see that I allredy shortened one jin (actually two but the other one is on the back side). The 'last one standing' gives the shari a nice start (or finish). I think I won't remove it. But thanks for the tip any way.

I really like what you have done by removing the jin. The jin sticking off at a right angle from the trunk created a line that was too harsh/angular/contrived in relation to the trunk, in my humble opinion. I think the jin and shari you kept soften the straight line of the trunk nicely. Thanks for sharing your tree.