Persimmon is a medium sized tree whose fruit provides more energy (calories) per ounce than potatoes or peaches.
Eat them when the skin is soft. (If the skin is still firm, the bitter flesh will dry your mouth out.) Persimmon are often baked into breads or cookies. Try making puddings or cakes with them, or drying them.
Persimmon are dioecious, meaning there are male and female trees. The male trees will not produce fruit. Female trees often produce a few male flowers and can therefore be self-fertile. Although our trees are too young to be sexed, you should give this plant a try! You can always add another one later.
Grow persimmon in wet to dry soil, with six or more hours of sun a day. Even in poor soil they will produce fruit. They are a suckering species. They host many pollinators including the Luna Moth.
Stop in today to purchase one!
We have seed grown American elm. Buy one get one Free! (Hurry! while supplies last.) They are worthy of adding to your landscape. Read more about them here. We also have the selections Princeton and Valley Forge, known to be resistant to the Dutch Elm Disease.
Bog Garden Workshop Saturday June 18
Join our class and create a bog garden in a container, complete with carnivorous plants! This is one of our most popular classes and we are happy to resume our classes with this one! Sign up here.
Chestnut Workshop June 21
Join Steve Delp of The American Chestnut Foundation for a workshop on the history of the American Chestnut and what The American Chestnut Foundation is doing to help restore this majestic tree to its original range along the Appalachian Mountains. More details and registration here.
Plugs of various species still available. Mix and Match. $6 per plug. No minimum purchase.
We are celebrating PRIDE MONTH! Stop in the nursery this month wearing any LGBTQ+ or Pride apparel/logo/button and receive a free deep landscape plug. (Limit one per person).
