Autumn Olive
(Elaeagnus umbellata)
A very valuable and attractive shrub, Autumn Olive bears heavy crops of tasty and nutritious red or amber berries. Recent research has shown Autumn Olive fruit to be extremely high in lycopenes, which appear to help prevent prostate and other cancers. Very hardy and resistant to pests and diseases, Autumn Olive also provides abundant food for wildlife as well as improving the soil where it is grown due to it's being a nitrogen fixer. Every year you will enjoy the profuse fragrant white flowers which are loved by honeybees.
Autumn Olive likes half day to full sun, well-drained soil and is partially self-fertile. It is hardy to at least -35°F (USDA zone 3) and it grows 8-10 feet tall and bears 50+ pounds of fruit at maturity – often beginning to bear the 2nd year after planting. Autumn Olive is not related to the true Olive and can be invasive in some regions of the US, though reportedly not in the Pacific Northwest.
Autumn Olive likes half day to full sun, well-drained soil and is partially self-fertile. It is hardy to at least -35°F (USDA zone 3) and it grows 8-10 feet tall and bears 50+ pounds of fruit at maturity – often beginning to bear the 2nd year after planting. Autumn Olive is not related to the true Olive and can be invasive in some regions of the US, though reportedly not in the Pacific Northwest.
Amber, Autumn Olive
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A real garden beauty, this unique Japanese variety features profuse and fragrant white flowers followed in autumn by sweet and tasty, large golden-yellow berries.
Partially self-fertile - can produce fruit on its own but can produce better when planted near a different variety.