lots of flowers on olive tree

lost mine this winter : 0((

Oh! i am so sorry Mageth......i have always wanted 1 of these, are they hardy
Hd? yours, looks like it is thriving!!! You have got to be doing something
right...well done....: ~)))

Well... we let them stand outside, in their pots, but a bit sheltered right in fromt of the front door...(Maybe that's why I don't get that many visitors anymore, they can't reach for the bell).
Only when it is freezing right hard, we get them inside, en let them stand in front of the front door, but now from the inside ;-) They are a bit too heavy to move around from here to there. Or else we cover them in polythene...for a couple of days (and nights).
Last year we seemed to have lost our fig tree, but after a while its shoots started to come out again. That one is not in a pot, so cannot get inside.
I feed them a lot (all sorts of manure) and water them very well!! Even during winter, I do not let the soil get too dry. If you forget to water them for a few days, it shows on their leaves, they start to hang a bit.
So my advice to people with olive trees would be, WATER them very well. Of course, always ensure good drainage.
I hope this is a good advice, I am not a specialist. And the labels often say: let it dry out...Do not water too much, etcetera.
Hilda

What a good idea to keep salesmen from your door Hilda, guard trees:-) Does it get very cold where you are?

Indeed, I hadn't thought about it that way. Quite a good solution to that problem.
No, I thin about the same as in England, perhaps a tiny bit colder than London.
We've had two severe winters now, with temperatures just now and then minus 15 ° C I think. But these are exceptions. Normal temperatures would be till -5 or zo.
We would leave them outside until -5, if we would expect colder nights, we'd get them inside (in the hallway for that time). When they were still small, we'd keep them in our conservatory during winter time , but as it is getting more crowdy in there, that's no longer an option.
Hilda

I've bought some shrubs/trees this year that will need taking in from the cold. I don't have a conservatory, just a small porch or a garage, I must be mad:-) 1 Bougainvillia, 3 oleanders and 1 lagerstroema indica. They'll probably be too big to move in a few years:-)