Ripening: olives show their true colours

We are sometimes asked whether we grow green or black olives, as if the colours represented two different varieties rather the maturity of the fruit: every olive will turn from green to black as it ripens. When you spend as much time staring at olives as we do though, you start to appreciate the full spectrum…

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Spring wildflowers in the olive grove