Garden Plant: Pendolino Olive Tree
Pendolino Olive Tree
Product Description: Pendolino Olive Tree
Stunning Weeping Habit Pendolino Olive Tree
- Attractive Weeping Branches
- Self-Fruitful
- Late Season
- Pollinator-Friendly
- Productive
- Delicious Fruit
- Universal Pollinator
Let the Pendolino Olive Tree (Olea europaea \’Pendolino’) transport you to the mild climate and romantic landscape of the Italian coast. This specimen tree with an elegant weeping habit will please your taste buds with its unique fruit and your eyes with its eye-catching form.
The Pendolino Olive Tree may take its time when it comes to growth rate, but its olives and stunning form are worth the wait. This self-fertile tree produces small bright green olives that appear early in the season and transform to deep purple and black. The Pendolino Olive Tree is known for its early production.
While known for its self-fertile capability, the Pendolino Olive Tree is often paired with the Leccino Olive to increase production. It is the most often recommended variety for pollinating all Italian varietals. In fact, some refer to this variety as the universal pollinizer.
A mild flavored olive the Pendolino is often used as a blend with more defined flavored varietals to soften the taste These olives yield about 23% oil and offer a subtle and light flavor often referred to as green or fruity, typical of the Italian olive oils.
Once fully matured, this tree can produce over 20 pounds of olives!
Its olives are great, but its appearance is stunning. The Pendolino Olive Tree has long, weeping branches that support narrow, stiff leaves that stand upright. Its foliage is a soft green with silver on the underside of its leaves that glint in the sun. The canopy is dense with an abundance of foliage. The Pendolino has a full, bold look in the landscape.
As with other olives the Pendolino requires full sun and grows on almost any soil type. After being established, the olive is one of the most drought tolerant plants known.
Because of its long lifespan, strong branches, and attractive shape, most home gardeners will use their Pendolino Olive Tree as a specimen tree. Olive trees are long lived it is not unusual to find trees 200-years-old or older in gardens.
Use it as an attractive focal point in the landscape trained into a classic vase shaped form. Or, use it as a screen plant by planting them 15 apart (measure from the center of one to the center of the next tree. )
With attractive gray bark, evergreen leaves, delicately flavored olives and pollinating importance. it’s no wonder this variety is so popular!
With a moderate cold tolerance this tree can withstand temperature drops down to 10-degrees Fahrenheit.
As with other olives, the Pendolino makes a wonderful container plant. This works well for colder climates where the Olive can be brought in for protection during the cold winter months.
Choose a location with plenty of direct sunlight and away from heat sources such as stoves and heater vents. An attached sunroom is ideal in most climates. Water less in the winter as the plant grows at a much slower rate.
The variety has a history of being resistant to pests and typical diseases. Although the Pendolino loves the hot interior climates, it is also known to be adapted to milder coastal regions as well.
The Pendolino Olive Tree can help your other olive trees produce more abundantly and encourage pollinators to visit your garden. This peaceful beauty will provide your yard with a piece of Italy and a wonderful olive harvest as well.