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Kalamata Olive
Olea europaea ‘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.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 70L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 75L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 90L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 500mm about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m of clear access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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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.
Kalamata Olive - Olea europaea ‘Kalamata’
Grown for the table rather than the press, Olea europaea ‘Kalamata’ carries the large, almond shaped purple black fruit that made the name famous in southern Greece. In the landscape it behaves like any good olive: grey green, tough, long lived and content on ground that would defeat most fruit trees. Australian growers choose it where the crop matters as much as the look, accepting that it needs a partner tree to fruit well.
Why Kalamata Olive
Table fruit quality: The fruit is large, firm fleshed and holds its shape through curing, which is why it dominates the table olive trade.
Cross pollination matters: It sets poorly on its own, so a second olive of a different variety nearby lifts the crop substantially.
Grey foliage year round: The silver undersides catch light and hold colour through the whole Australian summer.
Heat and drought hardiness: Once established it copes with long dry summers, reflected heat and shallow soils.
Cold tolerance: Mature trees handle frost to roughly minus 7C, so it suits inland districts as well as the coast.
Siting note: In some districts olive seedlings spread from dropped fruit, so collect windfall in gardens next to bushland.
Ideal Applications
Productive grove: Planted in rows at grove spacing it gives a genuine annual harvest from a small block.
Clipped screen: Held at 3m and trimmed twice a year it makes a grey, drought proof boundary screen.
Mediterranean courtyard: It anchors a gravel and stone courtyard planting with rosemary, lavender and cypress.
Coastal exposure: Salt wind causes it no trouble, making it useful on open coastal blocks.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 3m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 7m
Best Planting Season: Spring through autumn while the soil is warm; avoid planting into cold wet ground
Soil & Drainage: Free draining loam, gravel or sand, alkaline soils included; waterlogging is the single most common cause of failure
Establishment Care: Water deeply once a week for the first summer and fortnightly in the second, then reduce to occasional deep soaks. Mulch to 75mm clear of the trunk, and hold off heavy pruning until the tree has made a season of growth so it can build a framework first.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m unpruned, easily held at 3 to 4m
Width: 3 to 5m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun, all day, for fruit set
Native to: The Mediterranean basin; this variety originates in southern Greece
Flower Colour: Cream, small and lightly scented in late 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.







