Unusual edibles: Autumn olive 'Amber'

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Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) is a great plant for the food forest: it bears tasty berries late in the season, it is a a nitrogen-fixer and is extremely easy to grow! Our favourite so far is 'Amber' a sweet yellow-fruited autumn olive.
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@myroslavajacklitsch6039 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience with this plant

@kellynash8097 6 жыл бұрын

This video is perfect timing for me! I ordered 2 red autumn olives a few days ago. One for my garden, and one for my allotment. Thanks for the tips!

@GrownToCook 6 жыл бұрын

Lovely to hear! What varieites did you get?

@miqf914 5 жыл бұрын

I enjoy your videos that speak of the garden as a whole, but I find these that focus on a single plant very interesting and useful, too. Thanks for making them.

@sketch6774 5 жыл бұрын

I just planted an amber, a Charlie's golden and a garnet I've never tasted the fruit but love the fragrance from the flowers

@kathycook1815 6 жыл бұрын

i have a silverberry and it has grey/green leaves - very beautiful plant and very fast growing evergreen. (I am in the U.S. deep south southeastern region). It does send its seeds out and you will find baby plants all over - other than that, it is a wonderful addition to the garden with its small black berries. Loved the video, thanks.

@GrownToCook 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Kathy! Is silverberry Elaeagnus ebbingei? We have that one too but it has not fruited yet - it is flowering now, but apparently it only develops fruits if the winter is quite mild - we'll see! What do yours taste like?

@nolanholmberg311 Жыл бұрын

@@GrownToCook Hi! even though its been 5 years since you posted this comment I will elaborate with some context. Both the Silverberry Bush and Autumn Olive are both highly invasive in the woodlands of the southeastern united states. Our winters are quite mild and so that is perfectly ideal for many plants to spread their seed. Making them highly invasive. Some plants are perfectly fine being grown in some climates because they can fruit and let the birds enjoy the berries but the harsh winter frosts will make the seeds unviable. While in others they'll be highly invasive. You'll notice this based on the origin of most invasive in their respective climate. In the southeast you'll find that there are more Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian invasives due to our climate being most similar to those respective climates. But in the Northeast you'll find more European invasives due to the cooler rainier climate more closely matching that of Europe. In Southern California where it doesn't freeze ever you're going to fine more desert and succulent plants being invasive due to the climate thing again. A highly invasive plant that is completely safe to grow in the southeast united states is the Chinese Beautyberry. It produces thousands of seed bearing fruit every year that the birds love which you would assume is a recipe for an invasive disaster however our winters get just cold enough that the seeds die in the winter. There are fears that with climate change many of the plants that we know are sterile in our area might soon become invasive because over time our winters have been consistently becoming more mild year over year. Hope this context helps :)

@bottletreefarm7669 6 жыл бұрын

Lovely Video!! We love our Autumn Olives... they do really well here in Alabama, USA

@GrownToCook 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Good to hear they grow well in Alabama too :)

@normajean8105 Жыл бұрын

Wish you could of shown what the berry looks like and how to identify it

@MrDennisdavey 2 жыл бұрын

does anyone know how to buy the amber one in uk? thanks

@iartistdotme 3 жыл бұрын

Is this the same family as sweet tea olive? They look very similar but I'm trying to find out if the sweet tea olive is edible.

@thegardenguy9160 4 жыл бұрын

I've had an autumn olive for about 2 years now and I got it when it was already pretty big this is the first year it had flowers I saw lots of bees pollinating them but then they all fell off and didnt leave any berries behind is this normal I'm so confused I've never seen this happen to any plant before

@sunenielsen2686 5 жыл бұрын

Hi, thank you for an interesting video. I have a red-fruited autumn olive in our garden and would be interested in this yellow-fruited one too - do you know if it is possible to buy this one in Europe?

@GrownToCook 5 жыл бұрын

Sune Nielsen Hi Sune! Glad you liked the video! Our plant came from the Dutch nursery Arborealis and as far as I know they ship abroad: www.voedselbos.eu/catalog/all/elaeagnus-umbellata-amber.eluamber.html

@sunenielsen2686 5 жыл бұрын

@@GrownToCook Hi! Thanks, I will try and ask them.

@jamesdevlin6373 4 жыл бұрын

Try Martin Crawford of the Agro Forestry Trust too.

@ellbug89 4 жыл бұрын

This is very similar to the invasive Elaeagnus umbellata, the Autumn Olive species (noxious bush with late August berries) that grows all over the eastern U.S. You can still eat the berries though and they are very similar and high in lycopene. The species you speak of Elaeagnus multiflora (goumi) could likely be grafted onto the invasive species for more productive delicious varieties for this bush.

@Fortress333 Жыл бұрын

Actually, she is talking about Elaeagnus umbellata 'Amber' and not Elaeagnus multiflora.

@rungus24 5 жыл бұрын

Hi there. Can I ask what plant spacing you have used? I only want small plants like yours, but everything I read about them just tells me their eventual size without pruning is 5 metres tall and wide. Of course that's too big for my small garden, so I wonder how far apart you have planted yours.