Pomegranate
Punica granatum (PUNICACEAE)
Planting and Growing Pomegranate Trees
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow pomegranate trees in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, fruit, and seeds of pomegranate
- Growing conditions for pomegranate
- When to plant pomegranate
- How to plant pomegranate
- How to prune pomegranate
- Watering, fertilizing, and care of pomegranate
- Landscape uses of pomegranate
- Pest and disease control for pomegranate
Growing Pomegranate Trees
Many cultivars of slow-growing, fruiting, upright, branching, deciduous, shrubby trees, 3–10 ft. (90–305 cm) tall and wide, with shiny, deep green, oval or lance-shaped, pointed leaves, 2–3 in. (50–75 mm) long, turning gold, yellow in autumn, and with gray brown, smooth bark, sometimes with trunks or branches armed with spines.
Pomegranate produce edible, many-seeded fruit. Their flowers attract hummingbirds and fruits attract seed- and fruit-eating birds. Dwarf cultivars available.
Pomegranate Planting and Care Guide
Flowers and Fruit
Many showy, deep-throated, carnation-like, cream, orange, red, white, yellow, single or double flowers, 1–2 in. (25–50 mm) wide, in spring–summer, form edible, round, yellow becoming ruby red, leather-husked, seedy fruit, 3–5 in. (75–125 mm) wide, in late autumn.
Best Climates
U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zones 8–11. Semi-hardy.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained loam. Fertility: Rich–average. 6.0–7.0 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Full sun. Space 4–6 ft. (1.2–1.8 m) apart.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep moist until established; drought tolerant thereafter. Fertilize quarterly. Prune in early spring to shape, remove spent branches. Propagate by cuttings, layering, seed.
About This Species
Good choice for accents, backgrounds, borders, containers, edgings, hedges in formal, natural, small-space gardens. Good for edible fruit. Attracts birds, hummingbirds. Pest and disease resistant.