Candide’s Coffee Garden is a small, independent, “Mom-and-Pop” nursery offering a collection of plants selected during our 30 years’ experience as growers and professional gardeners.
At our property in north central Florida, we, Jean and Cary Cloud, offer over 50 species of trees, shrubs, vines, flowering perennials, and self-seeding annuals, with a strong focus on plants that do double duty as food and attractive landscape plants. Olive Tree Growers has been our business name for nearly 20 years, and we are now changing our focus to growing a variety of species, and especially Arabica coffee. Before moving to Dunnellon in 2005, we designed, installed and maintained landscapes on St. George Island as Local Color Landscaping.
Our initial online offering for shipping plants is limited to 3 gallon coffee trees (Coffee arabica ‘Typica’ L.). See our Shop page.
All coffee plant images on this website, including the logo photo, are of plants grown from seed in our nursery.
Please visit our nursery located at Lake Tropicana in Dunnellon, Florida. Our business hours and map with directions are on the Contact Us page.
“All that is very well,” answered Candide, “but let us cultivate our garden.”
~ Voltaire
dan ganus
2024-11-14
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Really nice people, nice plants. This is a cranberry hibiscus I purchased from there.
Cindy Svec
2024-07-14
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These folks are GREAT! We have had the best experience - we’ve purchased a collection of native shrubs, perennials and an olive tree. They are smart, honest, affordable and extremely helpful to plan your landscape. They also grow and roast amazing coffee. Highly recommend!
Eric Johnson
2021-10-21
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I rarely write reviews but I am so thrilled with the prices and quality of the 6 trees that I bought! The owners are very kind, knowledgeable and helpful.
Jeff nally
2021-07-11
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The owners are awesome people. Very friendly and knowledgeable about olive trees and other types of plants. They even sell coffee trees, which we will be buying on our next trip to see them.
Michele Ertle
2020-07-02
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Great selection of olive trees at really affordable prices. The owner was very helpful with information and even sent pictures of trees in our price range since we were out of state and looking for a gift for my mother in Florida. I highly recommend!
Rob B
2017-09-29
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Sometime over the last year or two I got the bug to get an olive tree for my small residential lot in east central Florida. Olive trees are not native to Florida of course but to the Mediterranean but that region has in common with Florida poor droughty soil and potentially salty coastal air. What better practical yet historically and symbolically rich small to medium size fruiting tree could you ask for than an olive tree? Of course olive trees grow well elsewhere too. Olive trees are available from big box stores but they have no expertise in cultivating them and you may not even know what cultivar you're buying, so I shopped around online for a while looking for a tree. Many suppliers had olive trees on offer as a sideline or were oriented to commercial operations. When I found the Olive Tree Growers website it was different. It was smart and personal. It was clear olive trees were the focus of their operation and not just a sideline. It was also clear that they had olive growing expertise and experience. You could be sure what variety of olive tree you were getting and what its cultivation requirements were. There was also the offer of ongoing support. I called and talked to owner and grower Cary Cloud and and arranged to drive over to Dunnellen, FL, to pick up a small tree, a long morning's round trip for me. (They deliver and plant anywhere though.) Mr Cloud was most interesting and informative. He was happy to talk about olive tree cultivation at length, about different varieties, and provide lots of growing information. It wasn't just a transaction. Mr Cloud was as enthusiastic as I was about the subject. And I can assure you the offer of ongoing support is genuine. I have availed myself of it repeatedly since buying my tree. I email pictures of issues with my tree and find ready expert advice. Olive Tree Growers is a small family operation but has non-commercial clients large and small all over the eastern half of the United States. It occurs to me I'm being so praiseworthy here you might think I'm being paid to write this but I'm just a guy who likes olive trees and admires and appreciates a real-deal agricultural craftsman. If you love the idea of having your own olive tree and being engaged in its cultivation this is the place to go,
