Making Your Olive Tree Stand Out:
10 Planting Ideas

If you’ve come to this page from my Amazon Kindle book about caring for your new olive tree, welcome.

As promised, below are 10 photo ideas for olive trees with other plants.

Design your own garden.

My book ‘The Modern Mediterranean Garden’ features 46 drought-tolerant plants.

The plants are sorted by popular name, Latin name, height and dominant colour. This makes it easy to design your own Mediterranean garden. All the plants in the photos below are featured in my garden design book.

10 Olive Tree Planting Ideas

Yellow Theme: Glaucium flavum, Santolina chamaecyparissus and Helichrysum italicum

White Theme: Ampelodesmos mauritanicus, Capparis spinosa and Cistus salviifolius

Blue Theme: Eryngium maritimum, Salvia rosmarinus, Iris pallida and Teucrium fruticans

Green Theme: Euphorbia characias and Helleborus argutifolius

Pink Theme: Paeonia cambessedesii, Ballota pseudodictamnus and Phlomis italica

Purple Theme: Lavandula stoechas, Thymus vulgaris and Teucrium chamaedrys

Lavender and Rosemary Theme: Salvia rosmarinus, Lavandula angustifolia (English lavender) and Lavandula stoechas (French lavender).

Oleander Theme: Nerium oleander in pink, yellow and white varieties.

Cypress Backdrop: Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)

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Making Your Olive Tree Stand Out: 10 Planting Ideas