Left to their own devices, olive trees can get a little unruly indoors. Prune in early spring, just as new growth starts to ...

Bring the Mediterranean to your garden. Olive trees are native to the Mediterranean basin—Northern Africa, Western Asia, and Southeastern Europe—and have been beautifying gardens since antiquity. In ...

Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank face economic devastation as a surge in violence by illegal Israeli settlers and the Israeli military prevents them from harvesting their olives. Around ...

As we celebrate Tu Bishvat on the verge of spring, we look forward to the blossoming of new fruits and the harvest that ushers in a new season. We especially look forward to the blossoming of olive ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These roots were cut too close to the trunk. We don’t often think about the roots of trees until there is a problem. A forester ...

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 ...