You don’t have to spend more than a year or two in Sonoma County before you’re rewarded with a unique sight.Some late autumn morning, after the brightly colored leaves have fallen from someone’s ...

At Papaya Tree Nursery in Granada Hills, you can select from five papaya varieties, including several dwarf types. To schedule a visit, call 818-363-3680.

The native persimmon is a durable and pest-resistant tree that has a very narrow, upright form, even when grown in an open, sunny site. The bark becomes decorative with age, forming blocks framed ...

The persimmon tree can fill this gap with its attractive form and colorful fruit. Persimmons are easy to grow here. They tolerate our mediocre soil and can put up with wet roots for a limited time.

Q. I am interested in planting a persimmon tree in my yard. What are the different types and what do they need to grow well? I am in Riverside County, USDA zone 9b. Persimmon (Diospyros) can be ...

Persimmon trees produce some of the most gorgeous fruit, putting on a show toward the end of autumn when the rest of our shrubberies, flowers, and landscaping has started to fade. If you want to ...

Question: We are growing a persimmon tree that is about 12 feet tall with a central shoot. Do we prune back the shoot in the top? Answer: Reduce the height of the central leader about 2 feet to enc… ...

The oriental persimmon is a beautiful, small to mid size, deciduous, ornamental, shade and fruit tree. Originally from China, it arrived here in the late 1800’s.

Such dried persimmons, hoshigaki, were once a major food source and sweetener in Japan, since sugar cane and sugar beet were not grown there. Almost every Japanese garden had its persimmon tree ...

The old persimmon tree in our back garden was here when we bought the house. Every spring, some of the small green fruit fall to the ground and inevitably I step on them and make a big mushy mess.

Persimmon tree lives on at UAM September 27, 2021 at 2:09 a.m. by Lon Tegels Special to The Commercial ...