About Us
Jean and Cary Cloud
The olive tree nursery, located near Dunnellon in Marion County, Florida, is open for sales to the public by appointment. To arrange for shopping at the olive tree nursery, please contact us!. We also offer our trees for sale at events throughout the Southeast as listed on our Schedule page . For online purchases see our Shop page or call us to place an order.
The Clouds have been growing olive trees in Florida since 1989, and find that, contrary to popular assumption, this most special tree can be grown quite easily in the Southeast where temperatures do not go into the single-digit range, and in containers where winters are too harsh for outdoor plantings of olives.
Their first olive tree was planted on St. George Island in the Florida Panhandle, just 200 yards from the Gulf of Mexico. Since 2005, they have planted about 50 olive trees of several cultivars on another beachfront site nearby. All of these trees are thriving and all the mature trees are producing fruit.
Our History
Cary Cloud is a farm boy from the Florida Panhandle and has been involved in agriculture and horticulture for over 50 years. He met his wife, Jean, in Tallahassee, where they both studied at Florida State University. Together they formed Local Color Landscaping and specialized in gardening for up-scale properties on St. George Island for 15 years before moving to their present location and establishing the olive tree nursery, where they specialize in producing quality container-grown olive trees.