Diverticulitis is a common cause of left lower abdominal and back pain, and an increasingly frequent reason for hospital stays. As you age, small pouches can develop along the walls of the colon. Most commonly, these pouches develop in the sigmoid colon, located on the left side of the abdomen.
The autumn olive is a native plant of China, Japan and Korea that made its way to the United States in 1830. In the 1950s it was widely promoted as a great way to provide wildlife habitat and erosion control in environmentally disturbed areas.
Because sweet olive doesn't start blooming until fall, it can be tempting to give it a mid-summer trim, especially when growing the plant as a hedge. Holster those shears. Pruning in summer, when many other hedges are sheared, clips off all your buds for fall and winter. Sweet olive blooms on current-season growth, so prune no later than early spring -- after it finishes its winter flowering -- for the best show of fragrance and flower. The shrub only requires light shaping when it is pruned, cutting it back hard won't kill the plant, but can delay flowering for a year.