You can plant an olive pit and grow an olive tree either indoors or outside. Use an olive pit from an organic tree, rather than from a jar of olives you got at the store. Be patient! It can take years ...

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 ...

Spring blooms are followed by green fruit that mature to a black or coppery color. Fresh olives are unpalatable because of alkaloids and should be processed before eating. They grow in poor, sandy ...