The Olea Europaea ‘Montra’ or Little Ollie® is a Dwarf Olive variety with lush evergreen foliage, a multi-branch growth pattern, and a hardy nature making it a perfect choice for a wide variety of landscape styles and applications.

As a fruitless, evergreen olive variety, the Little Ollie® offers low-maintenance and easy care, while providing a clean and tidy look throughout the year. This medium-sized shrub has attractive deep green leaves with silver-green undersides creating a “shimming” look that makes it stand out in any yard.

The Dwarf Olive’s multi-branch structure and dense greenery allow it to be shaped for any purpose, they can even be trimmed into small topiaries for use as a showpiece on a patio or walkway. From classy formal hedges to stunning accents, there’s no job the Little Ollie can’t accomplish!

Dwarf Olives crave healthy amounts of sunlight and love the heat. Little Ollies® also thrive in poor, stony, shallow soils, and once established, become very drought tolerant, making them a wonderful option along walkways and stone walls where reflected heat from stone and concrete would harmless heat-tolerant species. While this charming and versatile shrub will excel in any landscape design, it looks particularly stunning in Tuscan, Spanish, and Southwestern styles.

Visit any of our nurseries if you need additional guidance on where to plant this dwarf evergreen shrub. Moon Valley Nurseries offers landscape design consultations that are free at our nursery. Ask us how to revamp any size landscape, whether it is a commercial or residential property. Also, for those that have HOAs, bring your list, and we will help you handpick the perfect trees, shrubs, and other plants that we grow here in our local climate. Plant more trees and plants, they are good for the environment and can increase property value!