Olive

Best pickling olive is Kolossus. This outstanding variety bears fruit of similar shape and colour to the well-known Kalamata olive, but the fruit is enormous.

Dwarf Olives Varieties

Bambalina, a dwarf ornamental hedging olive.  It is nil to low fruiting. It makes a very good hedge and can be kept at around 1.5m.  It will grow to around 3m if left unpruned.

Arbequina is a low vigor variety that has a reduced growth rate because it produces so much fruit when it is young.  It, however, is not a dwarf and eventually reach around 6m if left unpruned.  In commercial olive production it is grown in hedge rows and kept at around 3 metres with annual pruning.