Review this Plant

Fragrant Tea Olive

Osmanthus fragrans

Cannot Ship to AZ

Planting Details
Growing Zones:	7-9
Height:	10 ft.
Width:	6-8 ft.
Growth / Year:	2-3 ft.
Sunlight:	Full - Partial
Blooms:	Spring, Fall
Spacing:	4 ft.
Botanical:	Osmanthus fragrans
Tea Olive Planting Directions

Small Flowers... Amazing Fragrance for 4 Months
Tea Olive's Unique Aroma makes Life-Long Impact

A friend of mine cherished the visits from his grandchildren. But worried that the younger ones would eventually forget about their time together.

He wanted to create memories that would outlive him. He's a big believer that smells make a stronger impact than sights or sounds.

So he started looking for a flowering shrub that would give a unique fragrance that would be associated with his home only. Fragrant Tea Olive became his answer.

Osmanthus Fragrans, better known as Fragrant Tea Olive produce small white blooms that pack a punch. Some describe it as a rose scent, others as gardenia and still others as jasmine.

These unusually scented flowers come on in late winter, signaling the beginning of spring, then bloom sporadically during the summer. For an encore, the Fragrant Tea Olive puts on a show again in the fall.

This isn't a flower you have to bury your nose in to smell. Some customers have said they can smell a row of Tea Olives from up to 100 feet away!

Plant them near your entryway, windows or patio. On breezy days let the refreshing fragrance fill your home.

Cut off a few branches for your kitchen, car and office.

This strong scent attracts the usual summertime characters of humming birds and butterflies.

Where other fragrant plants only offer 1 month of aroma, the Fragrant Tea Olive blooms for 4 months and leaves an amazing fragrance that fills your yard.

Plant your Fragrant Tea Olive in rows 4-5 feet apart to create a lush, thick privacy hedge. Other great planting ideas include, at or near foundations, specimen plantings within flower beds or in natural areas.

Adapts to any soil and thrives on neglect. Plant several for even greater fragrance.

These will quickly become your favorite plants.

Tea Olives are long-lived, but grow slowly. This is why we send out larger sizes. This way you don't have to wait a year or more before you can start enjoying them.

Order the 3 gallons and fill your yard with this wonderful aroma starting this year.

Customer Reviews

Naruemol B.

I love the Fragrant Tea Olive, love the sweet fragrance. The 3 trees from Brighter Blooms are healthy and keep growing in my garden now. Can't wait to see & smell the flowers when they bloom.

Lorraine

In my backyard there was a Sweet Olive bush. From my earliest memory fragrance lingers in my mind. I would go out and talk to it and wrap it in sheets when the frost would come. It now serves as a final resting place for a prized feline companion, Goldfinger, who would crouch down under it when the grass went brown and he could be camoflaged, and would pounce on your feet. Since losing that house to fire, I have planted two in my new back yard and am waiting for them to mature enough to perfume the neighborhood. The fragrance is truly intoxicating.

Mark Repesh

Tea Olive (Osmanthus Fragrans) is a common outdoor tree/shrub here in China. They are in bloom now and nearly every place I walk in my housing complex and throughout the city (Chengdu) I can enjoy the wonder fragrance. In addition to the more common white flowers, there are orange and yellow ones.

Carol Skinner

We have 2 Tea Olive Plants, one at each side of the garage . We really love the fragrance that fills the air around and in the garage from these bushes. They are hardy and are worth every cent.

Beverly Ransenberg

Fragrant Tea Olive. We have three or four of them but they must have been only 1 gal. ones. The do smell lovely.

Forrest McCanless

We have an old house with the largest Fragrant Tea Olive in our county, as we understand from the County Extension Agent. No joke, it's more than a hundred feet around! Not sure of its age - the house is ~125. We love the fragrance, and it's more like a hundred YARDS!

peggy jones

The Fragrant Tea Olive has a beautiful, Lovely fragrance.

marian mizell

tea olive. Your site covered all the info I needed to make final decisions regarding the placement of three three gal size tea olive bushes I received as a gift. Thanks.

Theresa from Wilmington

I purchased the tea olive it is doing well and look very healthy. The roses bloomed soon after planting, and the tea olive tree is about 2 feet tall and very green. Brighter Blooms really delivers quality and I will certainly buy more from them.....

T. R. Chan

I planted two fragrant tea olives in my yard several weeks ago. They were healthy when they arrived and have already produced new growth. I look forward to many years of fragrant blossoms and shiny, dark green foliage in the years to come.

patrick c legein

I have the Fragrant tea Olive indoors, it smells so good the entire living room is filled with this fantastic aroma, I love it

Your Name goes Here...

I love this Tea Olive plant!! I purchased two of these plants and both were healthy beautiful plants when they arrived. I planted them in the spring and waited for them to grow. They are a slow grower but one day in late July I saw a beautiful, fragant white flower on each!! I cant wait for next season. These are the best plants I have ever purchased through a mail order!!

Ken Kruta

I bought a Fragrant Tea Olive after seeing/smelling one at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. This delightful tree has dainty white flowers and a lovely fragrance which is perfect for masking the "smell of dog" in our dining room. Nature's air freshener.

Debbie

I love the two fragrant tea olives that I purchased. They are growing incredibly fast.

sherry

My Fragrant Tea Olive is doing very good which is good news as it is hard to get new plants established in MS.

Patricia Reel

My Fragrant Tea Olive bushes that I ordered from you are doing good. They did not bloom this year but have grown to about 2 ft and look very healthy. They were the gallon size. They are a little spendly but I thought I would trim them next Spring. We are very happy with them so far.

P. Wells

My Tea Olives are doing well. A mix up in my order was resolved in a good manner and I'm very happy with my plants. They are thriving, in fact, I think I'll get some more.

Nita

I can remember as a child this wonderful fragrance coming from our neighbor's yard. I could smell that wonderful fragrance and I sniffed my way among all the plants until I found the Fragrant Tea Olive! Over the years, I've not had much success with the smaller (1-gal) plants, but a few years ago I bought a larger plant (5-gal) and it is doing great even during drought years.

E. Ty

I bought a 3 gal. Tea Olive plant this spring and planted it in a suitable place in the front yard. It is thriving very well and has already grown about 6".

Molly Schray

We purchased the 3 gallon Fragrant Tea Olive and received it last week. It arrived in beautiful condition and now is thriving in our back yard. We are really looking forward to experiencing its lovely fragrance.

Steve B.

Fragrant Tea Olive came in good shap. Planted in large pot on patio about 3 weeks ago and the tea olive is doing fine. growth about 1.5 inch and smells great. need to order another i like it so much but don't have room.

Review this Plant