LOS ANGELES — The first pomegranate that John Chater grasped bled crimson drops onto his tan suede shoes. The leathery hull brimmed with dark, translucent seeds bigger than his baby teeth, and ...

Pomegranate: Tree from Iran thrives in the California sun. By Jeff Spurrier . Sept. 25, 2012 8:30 AM PT . ... and the seeds aren’t as hard as the variety called Wonderful, he said.

Q: I planted a Wonderful pomegranate 47 years ago. I’m glad I wasn’t counting on it for fruit, because in those 47 years I’ve had no fruit at all. Not one. Some years I’ve had nice flowers ...

My “Wonderful” pomegranate tree has produced lots of beautiful and sweet pomegranates for many years (never a bad year) until this year. Again, there is a beautiful bountiful crop of large ...

I live 1.5 miles from the ocean in Costa Mesa and have three pomegranate trees producing about 50 to 70 fruit per year. They are 12 feet tall, 12 feet wide and have been in the ground about 20 years.

While some pomegranate trees probably arrived with Spanish missionaries, the wonderful variety was brought here by a man known to history only as “Mr. Baers of Porterville,” who obtained a ...

The first pomegranate that John Chater grasped bled crimson drops onto his tan suede shoes. The leathery hull brimmed with dark, translucent seeds bigger than his baby teeth, and when he nibbl… ...