Potted 10 foot Olive Tree looks like its dying - Help please :(

Hi All
Maybe you can help. I luckily live on the top floor of an apartment block in Birmingham, UK where I have an outside terrace paved area. It can get very hot with sun and can also be very windy at times.

About 3 weeks ago I purchased a potted olive tree (approx. 10 foot tall / 35 ish years old I would think) but now it isnâ??t looking too healthy.
I am a complete newbie with plants/trees etc so please bare with me.
It is in a large plastic pot (dims 60cm Diameter x 50cm Height) with what looks look a very sandy type of soil.
The problem is that the leaves seem very dry and are falling off everywhere. Some of the leaves also seem to be turning brown. I didnâ??t water it over the last few weeks being told that it wouldnâ??t really need watering very much as they are from the Mediterranean where they donâ??t get much water. Over the last few weeks it has been either very hot on the terrace or very windy, or both at the same time.


I was looking at repotting it in the white pot that approx. 66cmDiameter by 60cm high, but what type of soil should it go in? How often should I water it? What about feeding?

Can anybody help/advise at all? How can I save it?


Thanks
Paul

 

It looks like one of those old olive trees thats been dug up to make way for development in Spain or Greece or some such place.

Its not been grown in that pot and has lost a very large amout of root,

I think it will look sad for quite a while and need a lot of watering and feeding.

 

Hi All
Thanks for the responses.
I have moved them against a wall so theyre not getting as much battering from the wind now. They seem to be in a very heavy type gritty orange sand at the moment do you think its best keeping them in that or getting some kind of grit/john innes 3 to re pot?
I am also looking into that rootgrow stuff, any ideas how and when its applied?
Thanks
Shippo