Olive trees are most often grown for their fruits, which are the source of olive oil, ... non-fruiting varieties are available and well suited for home gardens.

I agree 100% with Mort Rosenblum's call to end the olive tree ban in Pima County. Well, the ban on fruiting olive trees. I have 10 olive trees on my Tucson property, only one non-fruiting, and ...

Fruiting olives trees produce edible olives; non-fruiting trees, which are ornamental only, do not. “The trees stirred something in me that was almost dreamlike,” she says.

In the 1960s, Tucson banned planting any more fruiting olive trees in their city. There were already many of them on streets and gardens left over from its early Spanish colonial heritage.

In California last year, I found foodies keenly discussing oils and the ornamental nurseries had deliberately developed non-fruiting cultivars, dwarf ones for low hedges, and bushy ones for wind ...