Edimentals is a new term for growing flowers and vegetables together. Gardens today are often too small to have a separate ‘veg patch.’
20.06.2024 - 16:47 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
How to Identify and Control 15 Persimmon Pests
Persimmons are magical. I’m especially fond of the American species, Diospyros virginiana, because the fruit is so incredibly sweet and flavorful.
They’re also impossible to find in stores because the fruits don’t store or travel well at all, so unless you’re lucky enough to live near a grower who is willing to share, you have to grow your own.
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Growing persimmons comes with its own set of challenges, including the neverending battle against garden pests.
The good news is that persimmons aren’t often troubled by pests, unless you count birds and other herbivores who want to share in the bounty. But that doesn’t mean you can let your guard down.
In our guide to growing persimmons, we cover how to cultivate these trees in your landscape.
And to keep your plants healthy and thriving, we’re going to go over the 15 common persimmon pests to watch out for. Here’s the list:
15 Common Persimmon PestsAmerican persimmons tend to be more frequented by pests in North America than the Asian species, Diospyros kaki, primarily because both the trees and the pests that visit them evolved together in the same region.
That doesn’t mean American persimmons are weaker or more prone to problems. While they’re visited more often, they’re generally untroubled by an attack and will rebound on their own pretty quickly.
Pests that target Asian persimmons tend to be less common but more damaging.
1. Ambrosia BeetlesI wish we were talking about the musical Beatles, but alas. It’s the persimmon pest kind we need to address.
Ambrosia beetles from the Curculionidae (weevil) family can be
Edimentals is a new term for growing flowers and vegetables together. Gardens today are often too small to have a separate ‘veg patch.’
For the first time in decades I heard a cuckoo just the other day, its pealing “Wuck-Koo” ringing out so loudly nearby that I felt a quick, sharp jolt of joy at being so closely in its presence. Once a common sound, the distinctive call of this fleeting seasonal migrant from tropical Africa is traditionally believed to signal the arrival of spring. But as is true of so many other once-common species of birds, its numbers, which are down by an estimated 27 per cent since the early 1970s, have been in slow but steady decline for decades.
Image: Hampton Court Flower Festival. Credit: RHS
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We’ve all been there: The first summer heat wave comes to town and your air conditioner stops cooling, leaving you stranded in the heat. Air conditioners work hard year after year, but they do require a little upkeep and maintenance to run their best. If your air conditioner’s not cooling properly, there are a number of potential reasons. Some are simple, while others may require a service call from a certified HVAC technician. Here, we’ve outlined 7 potential reasons for your conditioner not cooling—and how to remedy them.
New Zealand Flax, or Phormium, is a handsome long-lived evergreen shrub that forms bold clumps of elongated sword-shaped leaves. The attractive, often colourful foliage looks good all-year round, and makes the perfect foil for other plants in borders, raised beds, gravel gardens and pots. Leaf colour is extremely varied and includes olive-green, purple, yellow, cream, red and apricot variegations, in wide or fine stripes.
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This year Chelsea Flower Show was full of interesting trees and shrubs with lots of dreamy woodland-edge planting in dappled light underneath leafy canopies. Native trees such as hawthorns, hazels and silver birch were the favoured choices in many of the show gardens, with a mixture of native and non-native ornamental plants selected for resilience and sustainability. In Ula Maria’s Forest Bathing Garden, white foxgloves, cow parsley and other umbellifers like Baltic parsley (Cenolophium denudatum) and valerian (Valeriana officinalis) were mixed with the simple shade-loving grass Melica altissima ‘Alba’ while Tom Stuart-Smith showcased intricate tapestries of interesting foliage in different shapes and textures. In other gardens, orange was a popular colour in many shades, from deep rusty orange irises to pale orange geums, especially in Ann Marie-Powell’s exuberant Octavia Hill Garden. As always, the Grand Pavilion is the ideal place to discover new and interesting plants showcased by some of the country’s leading nurseries.
A rose garden used to mean a garden planted only with roses.
Heads up: It’s probably time to revisit your junk drawer. Not to grab your go-to tube of lip balm or a piece of gum, but to finally organize it.
When it came to the kitchen in their three-bedroom, two-bathroom 1930s San Francisco home, the owners wanted keep the current square footage and layout, but adjust the space to make it work harder for their family’s needs (they have two daughters). So they brought in Allie Allen and Sasha White of Shiny Shed Collective to oversee the renovation of the 144-square-foot L-shaped room.
Gulla Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic architect known for her dynamic forms that have found their way into award-winning projects in the West like the La Peer Hotel, Palmilla in Newport Beach, and Sandbourne Santa Monica, the latter of which just opened. From her Los Angeles-based design studio, she shares insights on how to integrate organic beauty and function into your own home.