When to plant pomegranate in Port Elliot
- Plant seedlings: all yearPort Elliot area, cool Mediterranean
Worked out from 30 years of climate records for Port Elliot. Microclimates vary: frost hollows and hills run later.
A tough, deciduous shrub or small tree with bright orange-red flowers and jewel-seeded fruit in autumn. It is made for Adelaide: it loves long hot summers, handles frost, alkaline soil and dry spells, and needs little chill. Water evenly as fruit ripens to stop it splitting.