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Cultivars

Cultivar: Aglandau (origin - France)

 

Aglandau is said to make a top quality oil that keeps for a long time.  It can also be used for green or black table olives.  Clingstone.

 

Aglandau made it through the winter here in fairly good shape, as expected (remembering that the conventional wisdom is that olive trees in pots are more sensitive to cold than those in the ground).  In France, it is considered the most cold hardy olive.  Southern France is probably one of the two coldest traditional olive growing regions; cold in the sense of lowest temperature killing freezes (the other being Tuscany, in Italy).  There was a devastating freeze in southern France in 1956 that reduced the olive acreage by three quarters; and it is said that there was no single trunk olive tree in France in the aftermath of the 1709 storms - they all were killed to the ground and re-sprouted as multi-trunk trees.  We are trying every French cultivar we can get our hands on and paying particularly close attention to winter damage. 

 

06/11/09:

They all recovered nicely over the summer.

 

10/03/09:

Aglandau was perhaps the biggest disappointment this last winter.  Despite personal communication with people in the south of France, and being told it was the hardiest French cultivar, it did not do too well with our 10 F winter.  My guess is that three out of five of the original trees are dead.  However, as can be seen above, Aglandau appears to have tremendous recuperative powers.  It will be another month or so before I can definitely tell what is dead and what isn't...

 

06/05/10: