For many years, gardeners have used persimmon seeds as a traditional method to predict winter weather. A fork shape inside ...

Three years ago, I impulse-purchased a tiny Fuyu persimmon tree from a specialty nursery on Vancouver Island. As a non-native species, the exotic tree did not qualify for inclusion in our small urban ...

The persimmon seed forecast is back, and their winter predictions are in for the Ozarks. So what are the persimmons suggesting this winter? Here’s a hint: Buy a snow shovel! Fork, Knife, and ...

QUESTION: What is the common persimmon to get from the nursery? -- Rob Ciuffi ANSWER: Persimmons are ripening now, and I've been getting questions about planting them. There is only one type of ...

Growing a papaya tree is a simple matter. If you plant papaya seeds now from store-bought fruit, you will probably see a crop within a year. Papaya trees will die in a frost but they may be grown ...

It's persimmon season. The common persimmon, Diospyros virginiana, is a slow-growing, midsize, native tree that bears a heavy fruit crop, right about now. The Latin name means "food of the gods," but ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Q: I have a persimmon tree purchased nine years ago. In the past three years, the fruit hasn’t grown larger than a grape, changing color but not expanding in size. The tree receives sun all day long.

Q. Our sycamore tree always looks fine in spring, but many of the leaves become disfigured, turn brown and fall prematurely by summer. Other sycamore trees in our neighborhood do the same thing, too.

Count me among those shocked that La Cañada, a member of the Tree City USA program, may consider killing 475 baby persimmon trees. (“Persimmons may never bear fruit,” Valley Sun, Jan. 3) Who are these ...