Re: Olive tree selection

 Pat wrote:

Hi Pat, I am no expert, but we put a line of olives down our
driveway to screen the neighbours and they are doing great.
Variety is "mission", which is the classic olive used mostly
for oil. They were about a metre tall when we put them in, and
three years later they are about 3m tall and filling out nicely.
No crop yet.

Give them plenty of water for the first couple of years and
they should do well. Ours are in sand, but olives are very
hardy and should do fine in clay as long as it drains okay.