Mouriès is France's leading olive-growing commune: more than 80,000 olive trees under cultivation, five mills, two protected designations. Working here as a landscape gardener, the olive is not one ornamental subject among others — it is the subject. We have built genuine expertise in pruning, maintaining and restoring olive groves.
Olive pruning in Mouriès follows the protected-designation calendar: a fruiting prune in March and April in an on year, a lighter prune in an off year, systematic removal of suckers and water shoots, opening the goblet so light can reach the inside of the tree. On the local varieties (Salonenque, Béruguette, Grossane) we adjust the severity to each one's physiology — Grossane is cut back less hard than Salonenque.
Beyond pruning, an olive grove needs measured soil work: light tining in spring to break the crust, managing the grass between rows (sowing legumes that fix nitrogen), and watching for olive fly and peacock spot. We offer dedicated olive-growing contracts, separate from ornamental maintenance contracts and set to the production cycle.
On the design side, gardens in Mouriès are almost always organised around the existing grove: we graft on a shaded terrace, a basin, a cypress avenue, without disturbing the orchard. The dry stone terracing that structures the slopes is restored exactly as it was, in local stone, by teams trained in the traditional technique.
For your olive grove or your garden in Mouriès, see our specialist olive pruning, our olive grove maintenance and our dry stone work, or request a quote.
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