By opting for fruit trees with deep root systems and flexible water needs, your backyard will blossom (even when Mother Nature doesn't cooperate). Fig trees (Ficus carica) are a beautiful and ...

Although most trees benefit from winter pruning, some benefit from early spring trims in March. Here's what you need to know ...

San Diego has the perfect set of environmental conditions for fig trees to thrive. Gardeners who want a fig tree in their ...

Clemson University researchers have found a direct connection between tree health and mental health, the first time urban ...

While figs are native to warm Mediterranean climates, the Ficus ‘Brown Turkey’ is hardy ... unless the soil is frozen or waterlogged. While many fruit trees and shrubs are self-fertile ...

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.” – Carl ...

We set off before sunset for a night tour and, after seeing a crocodile thrash around the water’s edge and then disappear, we spotted an adult orangutan in a ficus tree. The kids’ initial ...

Bay rum (Pimenta racemosa) is another wonderfully fragrant Florida-friendly evergreen tree. The fruit, bark and leaves ... of choice for killing whitefly on ficus hedges. This broad spectrum ...