{"id":662,"date":"2009-08-10T22:09:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T19:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/?p=662"},"modified":"2009-08-10T22:09:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T19:09:46","slug":"pomegranates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/10\/pomegranates\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomegranates"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we moved to Israel, we bought a home with a garden. But homes with gardens here come with an unbuilt area filled with dirt– not soil, but dirt. From there, you are on your own. After living in our home for a year, I contacted a gardener to come and design a garden for us, put in all of the irrigation hoses (we do drip irrigation), and plant it. He asked what I wanted in the garden. I told him that I wanted something that was easy to maintain and that did not require a lot of water since we live in a water poor area of the world. He asked me if there were any specific trees I wanted and I told him that I wanted an olive tree, a lemon tree, a palm tree, and a pomegranate tree. He planted all those and more.<\/p>\n

Each year we have watched our pomegranate tree bloom and then watched most of the blossoms fall to the ground. The most fruit we have ever had was 6 pomegranates. But somehow, for some unknown reason, this year, the tree is full of luscious looking pomegranates.<\/p>\n

I have always loved the way they looked. When we were in Spain several years ago, we visited Granada whose name means pomegranate. While there, I bought a gold pendant in the shape of a pomegranate with a wedge cut out that had red stones inside. It was one of my favorite pieces of jewelry. Unfortunately, it was stolen. But I still have my tree and these beautiful round fruits to enjoy.<\/p>\n

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The first batch of pomegranates from our tree<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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