Written by Anna-Marie Barnes
This article was first published in Lifestyle Block
Your Backyard Fruit Bowl – Persimmons
May is the peak season for fresh persimmons in New Zealand, with supermarket shelves and market stalls now laden with this increasingly-popular fruit, which looks somewhat like a squat miniature pumpkin-tomato hybrid. As a home garden specimen tree, the persimmon offers not only a plentiful source of fruit heading in to the winter months, but also a brilliant display of colour as its foliage turns in the autumn. [Read more…] about Persimmons