I am sharing with you today photographs of some local olive pruning on a large scale that our neighbour has been carrying out for yet another neighbour. This is a major pruning task as the trees have not been pruned for many years. Thank goodness we did not have such a mammoth task to tackle! There were prunings everywhere and it was difficult to move around much amongst the trees to get these photos. Whilst I was clambering around I did find a beautiful little yellow flower, an aconite I think.
The Aconite I found, a welcome sign of Spring.
I am linking to Outdoor Wednesday today, for the first time this year, to share these images with other lovers of the great “Outdoors”.
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I am jealous wish we had olive trees. No room for them though and we may be a little cold for them as well. I need to move a small fig tree as it is exactly where we want to put our new greenhouse and I have no idea where I am going to put it! The green house is all in boxes here in the UK and needs to be moved to France, but I think this will only be when we make the final move. I have a car full of smaller items already to take over in March. I am looking forward to having the greenhouse though as it will mean I can get plants started much earlier. Love the little yellow flower. Diane
ReplyDeleteThat sure must have been a mammoth task. My daughter has such wonderful memories of picking olives with some of her friends in Italy. she studied there for a semester. I remember there was a special day where all the ladies were given these Aconites tied in little bunches. I think they called it Bella Donna Day but I may be mistaken. Pretty little flower!
ReplyDeleteThat truly is some serious pruning! Every time I read about olives here I just want to eat some, I think I'll be adding them to my list for this evening shopping trip - although they'll be nowhere near as good as proper fresh Italian ones!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a big job! Were the trees producing? I'm glad we haven't olive trees to maintain as well as the vines. I think our family will have pruned our vines before we arrive in mid March, but there will be plenty of other work to do in and around the house.
ReplyDeleteSigns of Spring indeed with the finding of the aconite.
I had seen an olive tree last when in Jordan 2 years back. Thank you for this interesting post on olive trees pruning, and these beautiful pictures show a blue sky. Have a lovely day.
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That is a big job! I am glad that you don't have to do that! Across my house there is a land and it is full with margaritas (the yellow flowers not the cocktail:) and it looks like spring time!
ReplyDeleteolive. wow! you certainly lucky, its nice to welcome spring
ReplyDeleteLinda, what delightful photos. There is something about old gnarled olive trees that "speaks" to me. It is as if they have a story to tell of long life shaped by travails of life.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful little yellow flower . Look at those gorgeous bright blue skies!!! Cheers the heart just looking at the photos.
ReplyDeleteInteresting pruning photos. Glad spring is showing signs of arriving there.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos. This year my husband did similarly severe pruning to the trees in our yard (mostly Japanese Maples) - I wish we lived where he could be pruning olive trees instead!
ReplyDeletePruning olive trees...wow...what a small town USA girl can find via blogging!!! Thanks so much for visiting so that I can visit you and your gorgeous country!!! The photos are so beautiful and interesting...love that little yellow flower!!
ReplyDeleteThis makes me long for nice weather. I am over winter. :D Thank you for stopping by Yoga Gal- I love that Tune for Tuesday has fans around the world, another reader who is a fan of the series is reading in Tokyo! Makes this TN gal happy. :D Take care!
ReplyDeleteThat is serious pruning. We will be pruning crepe myrtle trees soon and that is tough but they give us no food.
ReplyDeleteOH my word that is ONE huge mammoth task ... YS I agree with you Linda .. thankfully not a huge task for you too!! Beautful little flower :-)
ReplyDeleteAround here everyone did that last month. They burn the bits cut off and the smoke stinks up my laundry on the line...grrr!
ReplyDeleteOf course, I had now idea that olive trees need pruning. You already have these pretty flowers. I seriously envy you :)
ReplyDeleteI also didn't know that olive trees could stand such severe pruning. We managed to get our pruning done already, thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteHow cheery to see the aconite – spring is not far away for you! – g
That doesn't look like pruning - it looks like butchering!!! They did that to all our leaf-bearing trees here too and now they look so ugly! There won't be any blooms or leaves for years. Why do they take such drastic measures?? Do you know???
ReplyDeleteWow, beautiful photos. Love the blue skies too. Thank you for sharing this interesting post.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen an olive tree before! It must be heaven when there are olives on it.
ReplyDeleteLinda, I think what is nice about this post is the sweet flower that brings us right to spring. Isn't that just lovely? You are so lucky to have such beautiful views too right outside your house.
ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping us updated.
Julie
Wow!!! You aren't kidding. What an amazing amount of work. :-) Do they have a bonfire with all the cuttings afterwards? I'd love that. :-)
ReplyDeleteStopped by to say hello which I haven't been able to do recently. The grove looks hideous now but it will be beautiful later, and more so than if it was left completely un-pruned. I guess it is the same for trees as it is for humans, we age better with maintenance.
ReplyDeleteThe little flower and all those limbs is sort of like your finding a needle in the proverbial haystack. Aconite, I am not familiar with that flower.
ReplyDeleteIs the olive crop expected to be better this year, or is it too early to tell?
One of the latest trends in our grocery stores is to have an open olive bar where they have many. many different knids of olives.
It is intersting to see the various kinds and colors, but I wonder if it will really pay off considering the amount of floor space they have given it.
I would hate to be in charge of clearing all that debris from that yard.
Diane@ They sell Olive Trees in the UK now so no reason why you could not have one in a large pot in France and put it in your greenhouse for the winter! Greenhouses in gardens are not something you see where we are.
ReplyDeleteShelia@ Yes mammoth it has taken him a number of weeks. I think you are thinking of Mimosa which is the traditional flower for Festa Delle Donne which is celebrated on March 8th.
Jade@ I hope you enjoyed some olives, not sure from your comment if you realise they are not eaten fresh from the tree but soaked in a salt brine first.
LindaP@ I doubt it as neglected for a few years but should now improve. My husband has already pruned our vines so I would assume yours will have been done by then.
Lily@ Welcome and thankyou for commenting.
Patricia@ They certainly do have tales to tell.Have you read 'The Angel Tree', if not it is a book I think you might enjoy.
Laura@ Maybe one day it never hurts to have a dream.
ReplyDeleteKatie@ Thankyou for calling by, have you ever thought of linking up with Sunday Song?
Eden@ Welcome to my blog and thanks for commenting, hope you will visit again.
IcyBC@ Hopefully you will enjoy following the olives progress through to harvesting next autumn via my blog.
Julie@ We are lucky I agree, thanks for stopping by to comment.
Rambling Tart@ Yes the problem there is so much to get rid of in this orchard and no space, so it has to lots of small bonfires. I also enjoy bonfires, the clearing up after our pruning was fun!
More education in my "learning about olive growing" process. What a special treat to find the brilliant yellow bloom.
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