San Jose Fortune’s Tea Olive (Multi-Trunk Tree Form) – 7 Gallon Pot

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This is the multi-trunk tree-form version of the San Jose Fortunes Tea Olive. If you love the fragrant white and orange Tea Olives, you’ll also love this unique and amazing hybrid that inherits almost the same perfume of Osmanthus fragrans and the cold hardiness of Osmanthus heterophyllus. Like its parents, San Jose produces abundant, wonderfully fragrant white flowers in fall and early winter. The flowers are small, but boy do they pack a fragrant punch! All it takes is one tree to fill the front or backyard with a heavenly scent of perfume. The scent is indescribable. It’s just one of those things you have to experience for yourself. The best we can do is say that they smell something like sweet apricot. The young leaves of San Jose are unique as well: finely toothed all the way around and very deep green. We’ve heard San Jose Tea Olive is cold hardy to as low as -12F!

Growing 15 to 20 feet tall and 10 to 12 feet wide with no pruning, the multi-trunk tree-form San Jose tea Olive is ideal for use as a focal point specimen in sunny to partially shaded landscape borders, home foundation plantings, and around patios, decks, porches and other outdoor sitting and living spaces where the handsome foliage and fragrance from the flowers can be enjoyed from close up. A fine addition to fragrance gardens, cottage gardens, white theme gardens, and the Xeriscape (low water needs).

Suggested Spacing:  14 feet or more apart for space between plants

San Jose Osmanthus is easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil and full sun to mostly shade. We suggest 3 hours or more of direct sunlight per day or all-day lightly filtered sun for best flowering. It is exceptionally drought tolerant when established. Over decades of growing this plant in our own gardens, we’ve seen no insect or disease problems and deer don’t touch it. As with many other plants, constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic. No pruning is necessary; however, it responds well to to it for shaping purposes or size control.