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Re: edible street trees

At 01:25 PM 1/11/98 EST, you wrote:
>Cyndi I've seen pomegranate shaped into a tree right here in West Los Angeles
>in someone's front yard.
>
>Nancy Knupfer
>Nancy1234@aol.com
>

There is also a beautiful old pomegranate tree at Tucson Botanical Gardens
in Tucson, Arizona. It's in a rather sheltered spot, which may have helped
it get so big. It's got to be at least as high as the roof of the one-story
house it's planted next to. (I don't know how old it is, though.)

Pomegranates are absolutely beautiful plants, I think. Lovely green color
in the spring, beautiful red flowers, beautiful fruits, beautiful golden
foliage in the fall, and bare branches in the winter so they don't cut off
too much sunlight. However, I think that if you want to grow them as trees
rather than shrubs, you have to be ready to prune out a lot of new sprouts
from around the trunk each spring. I'm not sure whether you have to do that
indefinitely or whether there's a point at which the plant becomes resigned
to its fate and stops sending up the suckers.

I've also seen pomegranates growing quite happily in conjunction with
oleanders here in Tucson and also in Southern California, which I think is
interesting because I've heard/read more than once that oleanders are
allelopathic and you can't grow other things in close proximity to them.
Perhaps pomegranates & oleanders can coexist because they are both
originally from the same region? (Or maybe it depends more on whether both
were planted at the same time, so that the pomegranate can become
established before the oleanders' roots are too big?)

Katherine Waser
Tucson, Arizona (not really a "Mediterranean climate" because we get rain
in the summer, but we can grow a lot of mediterranean-origin plants here)
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