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An olive tree can actually live quite happily with very little pruning. A trim when needed, especially for the Lollipop or Pom Pom variety of olive tree, will do them wonders and keep them looking ...

Do you want your garden to feel like a Mediterranean haven all summer long? Then it's time to brush up on your pruning skills and keep your olive trees fruitful and healthy this season. While you may ...

Question: I read your column in The Californian and decided I’dask your advice about pruning our olive tree that we had plantedlast year. It is a large one, but the branches seem to have grownso fast ...

1 Prune suckering sprouts away from the base of trees. Both California and Brazilian peppers are infamous for forming suckers, as are tree-trained crape myrtles, carob and olive trees. After pruning, ...

A question for Dan Gill: Our sweet olive has been in the ground about four years and is about 6 feet tall. We've heard these trees can grow to be about 12 to 14 feet tall. I'd like to prune off some ...

“Mad pruner” is apt. Sometimes it looks like they were mad at the trees. But seriously, olive trees can be pruned in various styles and recover from almost anything. I suspect the severe pruning is ...