Little Ollie (Olea europaea ‘Petite Olive’)

The Olea Europaea Little Ollie is a dwarf Olive variety with lush evergreen silvery green foliage, a multi-branch growth pattern, and dense structure making it a perfect choice for a wide variety of landscape styles and applications, especially drought tolerant landscapes.

As a fruitless, evergreen olive variety, the Little Ollie is low-maintenance and easy to care for, while providing a clean and tidy look throughout the year. This medium-sized shrub has attractive deep green leaves with silver-green undersides creating a “shimming” look that makes it stand out in any yard.

The Little Ollie’s multi-branch structure and dense greenery can be trimmed and shaped into small topiaries or balls for use along patios and walkways. Creating classy formal hedges or stunning accents, the Little Ollie is beautiful in modern and contemporary gardens.

Little Ollie’s need a good amount of sunlight and love the heat and can thrive in poor, stony, shallow soils. Once established, they become very drought tolerant, making them great options when planted along walkways and stone walls where reflected heat from stone and concrete won’t damage their foliage. While this versatile shrub will excel in any landscape design, it looks particularly great in Tuscan, Spanish, and California styles.