Pomegranite's are unlikely to fruit in the UK, they're really a Mediterranean tree, we grow them down here quite successfully - have a chum in the village with a tree and it's laden every year. In your location you may be lucky tho, but I would think it's unlikely and this is an opportunity for Woolies to sell 'exotics' without thinking of the practicalities of it.

And there are two types of tree, one is a fruiter (grenadien) and the other is just ornamental, you will get some fruit on it but it's insignificant. We have one in our garden and we just enjoy it because it looks nice, flowers are nive also, but no fruit.

If it does start to sprout, it will want warm weather for at least a month - if it doesn't, take it back with the receipt and ask for your money back, here we get guarantees with our plants (bought two wisteria yesterday, garden centre gave me my guarantee slips for both) and if you don't take it back and say something appropriate to the managers at the shop, they can't feed it back up the line.

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TonyF, Dordogne 24220