Ripening: olives show their true colours

We are sometimes asked whether we grow green or black olives, as if the colours represented two different varieties rather the maturity of the fruit: every olive will turn from green to black as it ripens. When you spend as much time staring at olives as we do though, you start to appreciate the full spectrum…

Fruiting, production and ripening of the olive

Foraging Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)

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May wildflowers in the olive grove

Spring wildflowers in the olive grove

Ripening: olives show their true colours

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Early California, Simply Olives, Green Ripe, Pitted, 6 oz, 12-Cans

Natural fertilisers for the olive grove: crimson peas and black medic

Premium Photo Olives on branch. olive trees garden, mediterranean olive field. olives in various stages of ripening. soft focus background.