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Punica granatum |
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| | End of first season – a quick grower |
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| | Flowering early April |
| Common name |
pomegranate |
| Family |
punicaceae |
| Life cycle |
tree/shrub (Z7b-11)   |
| Flowers |
orange-red (summer) |
| Size |
to 20' |
| Light |
sun |
| Cultural notes |
well drained soil, drought-tolerant |
Pomegranates are native to central Asia, but the climate in our current garden is warm enough to sustain them, so we're giving a small plant (purchased at our local grocery store) a chance. Over time it may grow as tall as 20', but I think we'll keep it quite a bit smaller in our garden – assuming it thrives here. The shrub or multistemmed tree features attractive crinkly orange-red flowers, followed by fruit that matures in late summer. We're not expecting fruit any time soon though – it will take at least four years for any to be produced. But it has certainly grown a lot in the one season it's lived in our garden, from not much more than a rooted cutting to a man-high tree. Its foliage was knocked out by the freeze of mid-January 2018, but by mid-February it was pushing out new leaves, providing much needed green in a mostly blackened garden. Later that year we'd see and enjoy a single pomegranate; a larger crop arrived the following year. A more severe freeze in February 2021 gave our specimen a little more pause – growth returned more sparingly, mostly from the base, by early April.
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| | Bulging deep-red buds |
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| | Fading flower |
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| | New growth after hard freeze in 2018 |
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| | Developing fruit, late June |
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| | The young tree, April 2017 |
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| | Regrowth from the very base after 2021 freeze |
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: back fence border About my plant portraits
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