New Mexico Olive
Forestiera neomexicana
An adaptable, olive-relative shrub with early yellow-green flowers and blue-black fruit that birds love. Tough, multi-trunked, and easily shaped into a small tree or hedge.
- Family
- Oleaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 6–6 ft
- Spacing
- 8–15 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- AZ, CA, NM, TX