 Severity of pruning on Olea?
All,
Have been asked to severly prune a small,(10ft),Olea Europaea. The tree in question is approx 25yrold and has been butchered twice before. First time at 5yr old it was topped to 1ft, seems that only three shoots derived from that initial whack, they now form the main tree. Second pruning, 3yrs ago, liontailed all three stems. Olive appears to be quite healthy despite the loss off dignity and form. The lassie now wants me to whack it all back to just above the 1ft cuts, to hopefully form a lower, bushier Olea? How would the Olea react,ie would it send out profuse epicormic, to later form bushiness or would it only send out couple of shoots, not much use for bush.Trying to make the best of the situ. Again sorry for no pics, will be getting digital camera in April |