Big olive trees in small pots

 Just below warren street tube station, by about fifty yards on the west side
of Tottenham court road, is a hotel entrance with two olive trees, one
either side of the entrance.

The are each in clay pots about two foot six or so high and three feet wide.
The trunk of the tree is nine or ten inches in diameter and the original
height of the trees have been cut down to about seven feet high.

How would that have been done?  Getting what would have once been a *huge*
tree into such a pot?   Is it that the spread of roots on an olive tree is
very small, so they could have dug one up and trimmed the roots and then got
it in that size of pot?  I would have thought trimming the roots to that
extent on a normal tree would result in its' death.

Or would it have been grown in such a small pot, but then i find it amazing
that such a big tree would have grown in one successfully?

 


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The numbered paras at the top of the page may answer some of your
questions.  And they are grown in specialist nurseries in Italy, too,
often in pots, for just this sort of purpose.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 

I would vote for it being grown in the pot.
Think of it as a very large Bonsai.
The dimensions you give - 36" diameter by 30" high - are not small for a
pot.
Limiting the tree to 7 foot high will also limit the demand on the roots.
It may have been kept to a similar height for most of its life.

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Old olive trees move well given the right conditions, but they are for
sale as you described, see http://www.villaggioverde.co.uk/
David