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Jumbo Kalamata Olive
Olea europaea ‘Jumbo Kalamata’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 45Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Jumbo Kalamata Olive - Olea europaea ‘Jumbo Kalamata’
Where Frantoio is an oil tree, this one is grown for the jar. Olea europaea ‘Jumbo Kalamata’ produces the familiar elongated, almond-shaped purple-black table olive at a noticeably larger fruit size than standard Kalamata, on a vigorous, upright, grey-leaved tree. It gives an owner two things at once: a productive crop for curing, and a hardy Mediterranean tree that will handle heat, wind, salt air and long dry summers with no fuss at all.
Why Jumbo Kalamata
Large Table Fruit: Elongated purple-black olives of good size and flesh to stone ratio, ripening late autumn into winter and requiring curing before eating.
Vigorous Upright Frame: It builds a strong, well-branched tree quickly and takes pruning to any height you want to work at.
Better Set With a Partner: It will crop alone, but fruit set improves markedly with a second olive cultivar within bee range.
Coastal and Inland Tough: Handles salt-laden wind, reflected heat and poor rocky ground once its roots are down.
Silver-Grey Canopy: A soft, muted foliage colour that sits well against rendered walls, limestone and steel.
Siting note: In some districts olive seedlings spread from dropped fruit, so collect windfall in gardens next to bushland.
Ideal Applications
Productive Screen: A row along a boundary gives both privacy and an annual harvest.
Small Grove: Grouped on acreage or a rural block for a genuine olive planting.
Dry Garden Specimen: A single tree as the anchor of a gravel and succulent planting.
Coastal Windbreak: Planted on the exposed side of a garden to filter salt-laden wind for softer plants behind.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 3m for a dense screen or hedge line
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 6m
Best Planting Season: Autumn or spring in most districts; spring only where hard frosts occur
Soil & Drainage: Free draining soil, tolerant of alkaline, rocky and shallow ground; it will decline quickly in soil that stays wet
Establishment Care: Water deeply once a week through the first two summers rather than lightly and often, which builds the deep root system that carries it through drought. Mulch clear of the trunk, and prune in late winter to keep the centre open to light, which is what drives fruit on the outer wood.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m unpruned, easily held at 3m
Width: 3 to 5m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: The Mediterranean basin
Flower Colour: Cream, small, in spring
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







