64+ Yellow Tea Olive Bush

Fragrant tea olive cultivation and care. The most common flower color is creamy white but depending on cultivar can vary to include pure white pale to deep yellow or orange.

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Yellow tea olive bush!!!

In early fall and again in early spring tea olive unfurls clusters of tiny creamy white flowers with a permeating fragrance often described as a cross between gardenia and jasmine. Entering into container gardens olive trees continue to offer the lure and excitement that so many generations before have already discovered. Plant the tea olive bush in an area with full sun to partial shade. Tiny flower clusters have a delightful apricot like fragrance.

Zones 7 9 is native to western china and grows 6 to 8 feet tall and a bit wider. It can tolerate clay loam or sandy soil but performs best in well drained fertile and acidic soil. The shrub blooms recurrent white flowers but is better known for the soothing aroma emitted into the air a scent that will linger in your yard. Osmanthus delavayi delavay osmanthus delavay tea olive.

Common names include tea olive although it isn t a member of the olive family and false holly for its spiny holly like leaves. Flowers of all tea olive species are intensely fragrant often being compared to the scent of peaches orange blossoms or jasmine. Works well for formal or informal hedges and screens or as a landscape specimen. Osmanthus fragrans conger yellow is a new variety of yellow flowered fragrant tea olive.

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