Punica granatum
Pomegranate, Granado
- Height × spread
- 6m × 4m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Mild winter to -5C (RHS H3)
- Flowers
- Summer, Autumn
Availability
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About this plant
This is a good shrub for a sunny wall in the southern counties. It is often seen as a hedging plant in the Mediterranean. It has smart oblong leaves which are coppery coloured when they first appear. Then they are shiny-green for the summer and yellow in the autumn. The shrub flowers in late summer and early autumn. The flowers are trumpet-shaped with crumpled looking petals in scarlet, orange, or yellow. In theory you can eat the pomegranates which are produced but they are never as good as those imported from warmer climes. In some traditions this fruit is a symbol of fertility. The pulp is used to make drinks and sherbets and the rind of unripened fruits for making a red dye used to tan leather in Morocco.
- Flower colour
- Orange, Red
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Autumn foliage
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Bell
- Height
- 6m
- Spread
- 4m
- Height in 10 years
- 2m
- Spread in 10 years
- 1.5m
- Season of interest
- Spring, Summer, Autumn
- Flowers in
- Summer, Autumn
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Mediterranean garden, Indoors, Exotic garden, Conservatory
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil, Dry soil, Drought resistant
- Hardiness
- Mild winter to -5C (RHS H3)
- Borders & containers
- Borders and containers
- Use for
- Wall cover, Structural
- Walls
- South facing
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring - late · Outdoors
Feed with slow release fertiliser
Apply a general purpose slow release fertiliser, spreading it around the root area of the plant as it is coming into growth. (Or apply a liquid feed at regular intervals throughout the growing season.)
This is a simple way to provide a nutrient boost as a single annual procedure.
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water in dry periods
Established plants in the ground can cope with 7-10 days of dryness, and shrubs often manage 2 to 3 weeks. Water one section of the garden thoroughly each day rather than a little everywhere. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather.
Planting & general
Outdoor planting · Planting
Add root growth stimulant to the planting hole
Mycorrhizal fungi helps roots establish quickly, so they absorb water and nutrients more efficiently. It comes as a powder, granule or gel. Add to the planting hole or container, and to the plant's rootball before planting in the hole. For "bareroot" plants use a gel.