After a long, hot Texas summer, autumn brings cool nights, mild days, and Japanese persimmons. Unlike the wild persimmons that many people recall eating in the woods, cultivated Japanese persimmons ...

When the seasons change from summer to fall, persimmon trees begin to burst with gorgeous, bright orange fruit. Their autumn colors just shout “Fall is here!” Your farmers’ market booths will begin to ...

"For longer storage or once ripe, keep them in the refrigerator's crisper drawer to preserve freshness," Morales says. First, ...

This persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) is native to the U.S. and can be found throughout the Southern states. According to The New Southern Living Garden Book, it is “native from Connecticut to Kansas ...

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 ...

There is a pair of wild persimmon trees, one male and one female, on the edge of the wetlands near my home. Is there sex among persimmons trees? Apparently so. Males have the blossoms for pollination, ...

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 add ...

If your persimmons didn’t get harvested before the first freeze of autumn, it’s not too late. They may be even sweeter after the freeze. Persimmons are a little known and obscure fruit. But those ...

In the fall, bright orange ornaments decorate special tree branches throughout our county. What are these stunning treasures? Persimmons. You may want to consider planting a persimmon tree in your own ...

Ralph just came in from picking persimmons. One of our trees is loaded with fruit, and my husband aims to pluck it before the bugs, raccoons, possum and fox discover it. For a long time, eating ripe ...