{"id":816,"date":"2015-10-11T04:17:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T11:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2015-09-29T03:29:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:29:05","slug":"pomegranite-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/pomegranite-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Chestnuts &#038; Pomegranate in Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pomegranite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-817\" title=\"pomegranite\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pomegranite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pomegranite.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pomegranite-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More exotics can be grown in the UK as we get hotter summers and temperate winters. Why not try a <strong>Pomegranate or Punica granatum <\/strong>a large shrub or small tree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pomegranate tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good drainage and a warm sunny wall position will help.<\/li>\n<li>The leaves are green coppery when young changing to yellow as they age with brilliant orange flowers.<\/li>\n<li>A showy variety Flore Pleno is worth growing even if the fruit don&#8217;t have time to ripen in poor summers<\/li>\n<li>Nana is a very low growing dwarf variety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Growing Chestnuts<\/h3>\n<h2>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sweet-chestnut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-814\" title=\"sweet-chestnut\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sweet-chestnut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sweet-chestnut.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sweet-chestnut-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two Chess fanatics were showing off in the front of a posh hotel &#8211; they were &#8216;Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3>Chestnut Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can grow your own chestnuts on a <strong>Castanea sativa<\/strong> or Sweet Chestnut tree.<\/li>\n<li>It is a large, fast growing tree and will do better in a hot summer.<\/li>\n<li>Marron de Lyon is one of the best fruiting clones bearing nuts at an early age<\/li>\n<li>The tree produces male and female catkins in July.<\/li>\n<li>Best grown with plenty of space the tree can be coppiced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More exotics can be grown in the UK as we get hotter summers and temperate winters. Why not try a Pomegranate or Punica granatum a large shrub or small tree. Pomegranate tips Good drainage and a warm sunny wall position will help. The leaves are green coppery when young changing to yellow as they age with brilliant orange flowers. A showy variety Flore Pleno is worth growing even if the fruit don&#8217;t have time to ripen in poor summers Nana&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/pomegranite-for-climate-change\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}