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.)
