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Fortune’s Cold Hardy Tea Olive (Fragrant Osmanthus) – 3 Gallon Pot
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Fortune’s Tea Olive (Osmanthus)
Osmanthus x fortunei
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a to 10b (6b?) Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub or Small Tree
Height at Maturity: 12-15′, with no pruning
Width at Maturity: 10-12′, with no pruning
Spacing: 6-8′ for solid hedges; 18’+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Dense, Rounded
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: White
Flower Size: Small, 1/4″ in clusters
Flowering Period: Fall, Early Winter
Flower Type: Single, in clusters
Fragrant Flowers: Yes, extremely fragrant!
Foliage Color: Deep Olive Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun. All day Filtered Sun
Water Needs: Average, Very Low when established
Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sandy, Silty
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Dry when established
Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.0 (Acid to Neutral)
Maintenance / Care: Average to Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect
Description
Unbelievably fragrant and also very attractive, the Fortune’s Osmanthus, or Fortune’s Tea Olive, is a hybrid of Osmanthus fragrans and Osmanthus heterophyllus. As with other Tea Olive’s, Fortune’s produces abundant clusters of tiny white flowers in fall. The flowers might be small but they pack a punch when it comes to fragrance, filling the air in a front or back yard with sweet, heavenly aroma. This one has smaller, more lustrous leaves and a finer texture than Osmanthus fragrans, with juvenile leaves being toothed around the edges and adult leaves being smooth. A beautiful and easy-to-grow broadleaf evergreen that can be grown as a large shrub for hedges and screens or lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive focal point specimen tree.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 12 to 15 feet tall and 10 to 12 feet wide with no pruning, Fortune’s Osmanthus can be grown as a large shrub or small tree. The shrub can be kept smaller with occasional pruning. As a shrub, its dense foliage makes it ideal for use as a natural or clipped evergreen hedge, privacy screen, or background, or to frame corners or fill voids between widely-spaced windows in home foundation plantings. As it grows taller, lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive small tree for use as a focal point specimen in sunny to partially shaded landscape borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to fragrance gardens, cottage gardens, white theme gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs).
Suggested Spacing: 6 to 8 feet apart for a solid hedge or privacy screen; 16 feet or more apart for space between plants
Growing Preferences
Fortune’s Osmanthus is very easy to grow in most any average, moist but well-drained acidic to neutral soil and full sun to mostly shade. We suggest at least 3 hours of direct sunlight per day or all-day lightly filtered sun for best flowering. Exceptionally drought tolerant when established. Over decades of growing this plant in our own gardens, we’ve seen no insect or disease problems and deer don’t touch it. As with many other plants, a constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic. No pruning necessary however responds well to to it for shaping purposes or hedges.
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Tea Olive Osmanthus shrubs and trees.
How To Plant A Tea Olive
How To Fertilize A Tea Olive
How To Prune Prune A Tea Olive Shrub Or Tree
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I cannot believe how healthy and beautiful this plant is! Far superior to anything I have seen in a local store. Cannot wait for it to bloom.——————————-Thanks for the photo! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
My plant arrived quickly, well packed and looked vigorous and healthy.—————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
This was my first order from Wilsonbros. The plants arrived healthy, larger than expected, and are doing well having put on new leaves already. The packaging was also exceptional. I do think that the boxes could have driven over and been fine, which is great. Downside is that it was hard to unpack them (but that is not a complaint!!). Looking forward to seeing if they survive since I live a the very edge of Fortune’s hardiness zone (7a).—————————————————–Wow! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I ordered two Fortune’s tea olives (1 gal). Plants arrived to VA quickly and in great shape. Packaging was sturdy and secure. These have been in the ground about two weeks and they are doing great so far.—————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I ordered this Tea Olive from viewing your informative daily emails featuring beautiful species which will grow well in GEORGIA, ZONE 8A. The 3 gallon pair arrived, packaged to protect & stay moist. I had them in the ground by the end of the day, creating a new entrance to our back yard garden. 17 days later the pair is BLOOMING! I am so pleased with my purchase, & cannot wait for these beauties form small trees at our entrance gate!————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
This was my first order from Wilson Brothers, and it will definitely not be my last. The Tea Olives arrived within 4 days of my order, They were well packaged and very beautiful, healthy shrubs. The entire experience far exceeded my expectations and I will be ordering more soon.——————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
The plant was full and healthy when it arrived and it is doing beautifully. The sales person was helpful when I called, and the plant was delivered promptly, as promised. Thank you Wilson Brothers!————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Arrived promptly and in great shape!————————————–We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
This 3 gallon Osmanthus arrived very quickly and in beautiful, healthy condition. Boxed and packaged perfectly. Planted it the same day it arrived and now, a week later, it seems to be pretty happy. I feel really confident about ordering from Wilson Bros. and will definitely order more plants from them.————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
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