Will tolerate drought but expect diminished fruit production.Add 1 Tablespoon per square foot of tree. Also, like other fruit trees, an application of epsom salt helps produce sweeter fruit. In the fall, feed your plant with a good supply of nitrogen to support both flower and foliage growth.They also surprisingly handle salty soil like a champ.
Perfect for adding to Mediterranean style gardens, paired with fig, citrus, and olive trees.Add one to your fruit orchard and devour all the powerful antioxidants contained in the fruit.Normally a large deciduous shrub but also works well pruned into a small tree or an espalier.Photograph by Sophia Moreno-Bunge for Gardenista, from DIY Floral Arrangement: A Bouquet Inspired by Old-World Still Lifes. Above: Not only are pomegranates delicious, but they also have decorative appeal. For coastal, cooler climate gardens where summers are mild, consider growing an early maturing type, like Golden Globe. Plus, in the fall the leaves turn a pleasing fall-inspired yellow before dropping off. Pomegranates thrive in USDA growing zones 8 to 10, but if you don’t live where there are long, dry, hot summers (which is what the plant sadistically likes), then you can appreciate the pomegranate as an interesting large shrub with tube-shaped, bright red-orange summer flowers that turn into hard, not so tasty, but definitely ornamental globes. To start, pomegranates are both self- and cross-pollinated (mainly by bees), so you only need one tree to get fruit, though you can boost production by planting more pollen-heavy flowers in your garden to lure the helpful workers. But once your tree is up and running, it is an easy plant to take care of. Photograph by Jim Powell for Gardenista, from Chelsea Flower Show 2018: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Designer Sarah Price’s Mediterranean Garden.įrom a 3-foot shrub (in the dwarf variety) to a towering 20-foot-tall and -wide tree, pomegranates symbolize prosperity and abundance due to their many, many seeds, but they do require a bit of patience as they can take two to three years before beginning to fruit and then five to seven months for fruit to mature. Spanish missionaries later brought pomegranates to the New World, and as the missions popped up alongĭespite being both historic and a superfruit, this resilient plant isn’t grown by many home gardeners-but maybe after learning more, they’ll want to reconsider.Ībove: An established pomegranate tree in Sarah Price’s award-winning garden. The pomegranate then traveled through China and India, and then on to the Mediterranean where it thrived in the dry, Once this historic plant made its way to Greece, it became one of the first foods to be cultivated, The pomegranate goes back to ancient Middle East civilizations and was well-known in the Biblical period. Who else feels like wearing a white toga and donning a laurel leaf crown while munching on a pomegranate? (Just me? Oh, well.)
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