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one of thousands of old olivetrees in the area. Olivetrees do well in this area and they have been part of the landscape since Roman times, in fact, some have been planted by the Romans.
Almost all have twisted trunks, and they all twist clockwise...
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einer von vielen tausenden von Olivenbäumen in der Gegend. Oliven wachsen hier gut und sie gehören seit der Römerzeit zum Landschaftsbild, genau genommen, viele von ihnen wurden von den Römern gepflanzt.
Fast alle haben diese gedrehte Form, in Uhrzeigerrichtung.
living room curtains from hand-drawn olive tree pattern on linen cotton canvas
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Olive trees can survive to cold climates (I'll tell you the secret I was told...)... this one have been planted in the garden 4 years ago and it is still there... every winter loses all the leaves (which is not a fact exactly regular for this kind of evergreen tree) and, from miracle to miracle, every spring they are out again... once it also made two olives (but they are really too young for that...) ... :-)))
Olive tree can live 1000 years... in Sardinia there is one that is said to be 4000 years old (but I do not know if there is scientific evidence for that...)
The thousands of trees around the island are all like this, a mass of pitted holes and very gnarly trunks sometimes so hollow in the middle that all that seems to keep it growing is the outer bark.
This olive tree stands near the Erechtheion and is obviously dedicated to goddess Athena, protector of the city.
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Apologies for absence - work etc. Anyway I'm still alive and kicking.
Today's picture is an illustration of what happens to an olive tree when no one prunes it for a few years, it gets rather shaggy and turns into a big bush.
PS Additional olive tree images are in the Alpes Maritimes set
Previously posted on my blog at www.di2.nu/blog.htm?20050701
On the edge of the barranc on a narrow terrace I discovered these grapevines growing in olivetrees. Someone has tried to grow grapes years ago, now they are reaching for the sun above the tree tops. In winter the sun does not reach the barranc bottom anymore.
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Am Rand der Schlucht auf einer schmalen Terasse entdeckte ich diese Reben die in die Olivebäume gewachsen sind. Jemand hat vor vielen Jahren einmal versucht hier Reben zu pflanzen. Am Osthang hat es jetzt keine Sonne mehr.
Today we look at the raw vegetable desire for growth of the olive tree.
Whenever an olive root is on or near the surface up come these shoots
and, if you don't cut them back they will, in the fullness of time,
turn into big olive trees themselves. Indeed you see many circles of
younger olive tree shoots surrounding an older trunk (as in this image) and when ants,
frost or some other calamity has befallen the main tree this is a
common way to regenerate the plant from the root up.
Of course for those times and places where you don't want any
distractions from the main trunk this is a bit of a pain and it is best
to cut them down. I may try seeing if I can transplant some of them
though because I've read in a book
that I own that this is a good way to get a new tree and is is
considerably faster than waiting for a seedling to grow up.