Be patient.

Sweet Olive Shrubs – Best Time To Prune. Q: When is the best time to prune sweet olive shrubs? Mine are six feet tall and bloom in spring and fall.

Water your sweet olive tree deeply to soak the soil around the root ball once every month throughout the spring, summer and autumn.

A: I’d do it after the spring flowering period. Tea olive, Osmanthus fragrans, blooms on twigs that grew in the last six to nine months.

By pruning in spring, there’s plenty of time for new growth that will perfume the neighborhood in fall. Most varieties of sweet olive should be pruned in early spring, before new growth begins. Step 1 Prune to control shape and size in early spring. Remove the branches back to their point of origin and follow the natural shape of the tree. Jan 06, So, for a 6-foot-tall sweet olive, remove the branches on the lower 3 feet of the plant. At 6 feet, it won't look like much of a tree, but it's a beginning.

As the years go by, you will gradually Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. Q: When is the best time to prune sweet olive shrubs?

Was this helpful?

Mine are six feet tall and bloom in spring and fall. A: I’d do it after the spring flowering period. Tea olive, Osmanthus fragrans, blooms on twigs that grew in the last six to nine months. By pruning in spring, there’s plenty of time for new growth that will perfume the neighborhood.

Jul 04, Shearing of Tea Olive can be performed any time of year, however, to avoid damaging new growth that emerges after pruning, I recommend ceasing pruning two months prior to the average first frost date in your area. Heavy pruning to reduce the size or to tree form your Tea Olive should be performed in late winter, while the plant is dormant.

Oct 29, Cuttings taken from half-ripened wood root well when placed in moist growing medium. Pruning is not usually necessary, but old specimens can be limbed up and grown as small evergreen trees. A striking form of the sweet olive is Osmanthus fragrans f. aurantiacus.