Olive trees are ideally suited to hot and dry climates and can be very versatile plants for any backyard. They can grow in beds or borders, and are one of the best trees for small gardens, while they ...

Olive trees, to me, are an intrinsic part of the character, look and feel of the undulating landscape of the Mediterranean. Alongside grapevines, they’re everywhere in Italy, Spain, France, and ...

Despite their significance, some wish to uproot and trade the region’s olive trees to flaunt in public spaces and private gardens worldwide. This is possible due to the trees’ insufficient legal ...

A new study has unraveled the earliest evidence for domestication of a fruit tree, researchers report. The researchers analyzed remnants of charcoal from the Chalcolithic site of Tel Zaf in the Jordan ...

The 50 acres of olive trees on Dunham Jewett’s farm in Moulton, about 100 miles east of San Antonio, look like a war zone. What had been 10- to 12-foot-high trees with wide canopies are now nothing ...

The slow growth of olive trees forces us to look to the future and consider what kind of world we are leaving our descendants. Pope Benedict XVI plants an olive tree with Israeli President Shimon ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — The famous black olive trees that line Las Olas look just fine to the untrained eye. But are they? The notion of doing away with the tree-lined median to make way for a ...