However, not all hope is lost if you're struggling to get a persimmon tree to fruit. Gardening experts say there are a few ...

Deer are becoming a huge problem, munching on young trees and trashing plants. In a client’s garden, instead of fencing the block of trees (with 1.2-2-metre-high fencing, depending on the type ...

They also planted several shade trees and a dozen or two fruit trees, including a grove of persimmons (Diospyros virginiana), a little-known tree bearing sweet fruit in fall. The property ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

This week, we meet the persimmon or Diospyros virginiana, one of Indiana’s fruit producing trees. The alternately held leaves of persimmon are oval shaped with smooth margins, with no lobes or teeth.