The Fragrant Tea Olive Tree, or Osmanthus Fragrans, is an excellent choice to sweeten up your garden with its incredibly delectable scent and soft white blossoms! The sweet olive tree may even attract butterflies with the sweet scent. The lush, green foliage of the Tea Olive shrub has pale undersides and is accompanied by a multitude of small, extremely sweet-smelling white flowers. The tiny creamy white tea olive tree blooms will perfume the entire landscape. Since the fragrant olive tree flowers are not noticeably showy, visitors in your garden or landscape will wonder where the delightful fragrance is coming from. They will get their answer as soon as they pass this dense evergreen shrub with dark green leaves that keep their color all year long. With its upright, vase-shaped growth habit, the sweet osmanthus tea olive bush is ideal for use as a fragrant specimen plant, privacy hedge, or can be trained to grow as a small tree. The sweet Olive shrub should be placed where its delightful fragrance can be enjoyed. We enjoy seeing it as a border hedge in multiple foundation plantings. Shop our Fragrant Tea Olive trees for sale and enjoy the fragrant sweet olive plants through the spring or fall growing season, no matter what time of year.

• Tea olive trees are evergreen and usually keep their luscious green leaves all year. If your sweet olive tree is losing leaves it's likely due to a watering issue. Be sure to water your fragrant tea olive tree everyday to help keep it healthy. Other reasons tea olive trees lose their leaves include root rot, fungal root infection, extreme cold temperatures, or if it's not getting enough sunlight.
• A full grown fragrant tea olive tree will reach heights between 10 and 12 ft. and widths exceeding 8 ft. As your tea olive tree matures, youll see that its scent also grows more impressive, as your neighbors may be able to smell it from across the street!
• Tea olive trees will grow at a moderate rate of 1 to 2 ft. per year until they reach their full maturity. If you buy a tea olive tree from Perfect Plants, it will usually take your tree at least 3 to 5 years to reach full maturity.
• Its common for Tea Olive trees to be grown as privacy hedges. Full grown fragrant tea olive trees can grow up to 12 in. per year and around 10 to 12 ft. tall and 8 ft. wide. Since they tend to be shrublike in nature, its best to plant tea olive trees about 4 to 5 ft. apart so they have enough space to grow but are also close enough to provide a wall of privacy.
• The best time to plant your fragrant tea olive trees is in the Spring and fall as these are the active growing seasons for sweet olive trees and also the times when their roots grow the most.
• Caring for fragrant tea olive trees is simple once youre aware of a few things. The Tea Olive tree prefers full sun or partial shade, as too much shade will lead to a less dense growth. Sweet olive trees prefer well-drained, acidic soils and can tolerate a wide variety of growing conditions such as clay, loamy, or sandy soils. The nutrient and water schedule for this plant is also super easy and theyre drought tolerant once established. Sweet olive trees are pest and disease-resistant and a great choice to grow in hardiness zones 8-11 across the United States, including some cold-hardy climates.
• Good news! Tea olive trees are not toxic or poisonous to dogs or any other animal. This can be confused with tea tree oil, which needs to be created and processed and is highly toxic to dogs and cats.
• Fragrant tea olive tree blooms begin in early fall around October and usually last until early spring. Sweet tea olive trees can bloom several times a year and bloom for a long period at a time, sometimes as long as two months, letting you enjoy the fragrance and beauty of the olive tree flowers all year round.