Product Description
*Spring 2021 Pre-Order Only – Ships in Spring Once Available*
The Fragrant Tea Olive Tree is an excellent choice to sweeten up your garden with its incredibly delectable scent and soft white blossoms! The sweet olive tree may attract butterflies with the sweet scent.
The lush, green foliage of the Tea Olive shrub has pale undersides and is accompanied by a multitude of small, extremely sweet smelling white flowers. The fragrant blooms begin in early fall around October and last until early spring. The tiny creamy white tea olive blooms will perfume the entire landscape.
Since the fragrant flowers are not noticeably showy, visitors in your garden or landscape will wonder where the delightful fragrance is coming from. They will get their answer as soon as they pass this dense evergreen shrub with dark green leaves that keep their color all year long.
With its upright oval, columnar growth habit the sweet osmanthus tea olive bush is ideal for use as a fragrant specimen plant, privacy hedge, or can be trained to grow as a small tree. The sweet Tea Olive Tree should be placed where its delightful fragrance can be enjoyed. We enjoy seeing it as a border hedge in multiple foundation plantings.
Tea Olive Tree Care
This evergreen fragrant tea olive plant prefers full sun to partial shade and is drought tolerant once established.
The sweet tea olive plant grows up to 15 to 30 feet tall and 15-20 feet wide at maturity and prefers well drained, acidic soil types. It can tolerate a wide variety of growing conditions such as clay, loamy, or sandy soils. The nutrient and water schedule for this plant is super easy!
This sweet olive bush is a great choice, even for some cold hardy climates and it is very long lived! Great for southern gardens as the tea olive osmanthus fragrans grow in hardiness zones 8-11 across the United States.
The fragrant tea olive shrub growth rate is up to 12 inches per year. If you are looking to create a tea olive hedge for privacy, space these evergreen trees approximately 5-10 feet apart.
Information on planting this tea olive shrub is as follows. Make sure your plant arrived healthily. Dig a hole the size of the root ball. Place the plant into the hole up until the trunk. Backfill with soil until filled and firmly compress the soil.
Water the fragrant olive tree regularly the first year of planting to establish a strong root system and keep healthy white blooms. Apply a complete fertilizer with slow release nitrogen yearly. It is pest and disease resistant.
Enjoy the fragrant sweet olive plants through the spring or fall growing season, no matter what time of year.
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Osmanthus fragrans
- Fragrant
- Drought tolerant
- Upright growth habit
- Evergreen
Livia –
Smells so beautiful. Arrived in excellent condition.
Rose Kemper –
First time online plant shopper, so was hesitate to buy plants online. The ‘About Us’ page really sold me on Perfect Plants. Bought 4 3gallons and was very happy. They came in two boxes shipped via Fedex, nicely packaged. Thanks!
Glenda Elkhan –
Another first time online plant shopper here. You would be amazed at how well these plants are packaged. Arrived in great condition. I wanted to make sure my Tea Olive did the best possible, so I bought the add-on soil and fertilizer, which both came with printed instructions on how to use.
Nikki Scott –
Bought in January as a gift and the #1 gallon Tea Olive I bought had 3 blooms. Very happy with this gift purchase.
Manny Garcia (store manager) –
The smell is tantalizing.. I can smell it from a few feet away and when it’s breezy. So glad I decided to plant this near my door so I can always catch a whiff of the lovely fragrance of the tea olive.
Craig (verified owner) –
Arrived quickly, shipped well and the plants seem to be doing well. Thank you.
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Thank you for your order! The tea olive is a magical plant and we are happy yours is doing well :)
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Beautiful plants. They were alive and thriving when they arrived, and have taken to the soil very well. I’ve had plenty of new growth on the bushes.
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Thank you so much for your kind words on our Tea Olive Tree. Enjoy those fragrant blooms this fall!
Teresa F. (verified owner) –
I ordered my first Tea Olive Tree through Zullily which came from perfect plants. wasn’t getting to excited until I actually saw the plant. I was so pleased with it that I immediately ordered another from Perfect Plants the day I got my first one. Now I want to save the money to order a couple of Oak Leaf Hollies.
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Hi Teresa, thank you so much for your support. We are happy to help out wonderful customers like you and we hope you enjoy your Tea Olive shrubs!
Judy (verified owner) –
Beautiful Tea Olive which came shipped in wonderful condition and as described!
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Judy, thank you for your kind words regarding our Tea Olive Tree. We are so glad it arrived to your home safe and sound. Enjoy those fragrant blooms this fall!