Olive Nursery Information
Australis Plants is a specialist olive nursery producing the largest range of olive varieties and tree sizes in Australia. All olive varieties are propagated from mature motherstock trees that have been verified as true to type using DNA or morphological techniques.
We have in our olive nursery, a motherstock collection of over 60 varieties of olive trees that have being collected over the past 30 years.
This collection represents some of the most productive oil and table varieties that have been imported into Australia from Spain, Italy, Greece, USA, Israel, France, the former Yugoslavia, North Africa, Tunisia and Chile.
The olive nursery is located at Helidon just below the Toowoomba range in south-east Queensland. Click here to download a map to the nursery.
Nursery Hygiene & Practice
All of our olive trees are produced under the highest standards of nursery hygiene and horticultural practice to ensure that each tree dispatched is of the highest quality.
1. Trees are grown under a balanced nutritional program resulting in vigorous healthy trees that are fully sun hardened and ready to plant all year round in most environments.
2. All tubestock, 90mm pot size and 5 Litre size trees are grown on benches throughout the entire production cycle to prevent possible contamination with soilborne diseases.
3. All irrigation water is treated to eliminate any potential waterborne pathogens.
4. All media used in production is either sterile or sourced from an NIASA accredited supplier.
5. Tubestock and grove size trees are produced in square pots to prevent root spiralling and to ensure good anchorage and development of the root system in the field.
6. Varietal colour coding is used so that each olive variety can be clearly identified by pot colour.
7. All olive varieties are produced from motherstock varieties that have been verified as true to type using DNA and/or morphological techniques.
8. We meet the quarantine requirements of all states and are accredited to export trees to Tasmania and Western Australia.
Tree Sizes
Tubestock (show picture)
These young starter trees are designed to be potted-on either by growers or nurseries. In a 50mm square tube the trees are a minimum of 100mm tall and are 4-5 months old.
Commercial Grove Size (show picture)
In a 90mm square pot. Trees are 400mm to 700mm above the pot and 8-12months old. These young trees are pruned to a single trunk and staked. They are sun hardened and ready to plant in the orchard.
5 Litre bag Size (show picture)
In a 5 litre poly planter bag. Minimum tree height is 1200mm above the bag. Trees are staked, and branching and 14-18months old. For retail nursery sales, pictorial variety labels are available.Trees pack 108 per pallet
Advanced Landscape Size (show picture)
In a 25 litre planter bag with handles. Tree height is 1800mm- 2000mm above the bag. Trees are staked, and branching and are around 2yrs old. Trees pack 14 per pallet.
Freight
All of our trees are economically delivered by professional freighters to all states of Australia. The current freight cost is approximately $0.30 to $2.10 per tree depending on the distance from the nursery. Deliveries are made weekly to NSW, Victoria, Western Australia, ACT, South Australia and Queensland.
Being a wholesale nursery, we can only supply commercial growers and nurseries. Due to these limits, our minimum order per customer is: 96 (1 carton) of the tubestock size, 44 (1 carton) of the 90mm pot size trees, 24 of the 5 Litre bag size trees or 6 of the 25L advanced trees. Please note, when minimum quantities are ordered, freight costs are usually higher per tree.
Olive tree sales can also be made directly through stockists in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra and Hobart. We also have a network of retail nurseries throughout Australia who stock our trees. Please contact us for interstate nursery details.
International orders are welcome. We currently export trees to a number of countries including: Japan, Thailand, Nepal, USA and China.
Consultancy Services
Australis Plants have undertaken extensive olive variety research in Australia in association with Olives Australia and the Rural Industries Development Corporation (RIRDC) Project OAP-1A: Olive Variety Assessment for Subtropical Summer Rainfall Regions (pdf)
Qualified horticultural advice is available on varietal selection, plant nutrition and pest and disease management.