Cut these vigorous growers back to keep them in check. Fig trees (Ficus carica) are shrubs or small trees that thrive in warm climates, tolerating droughts and heat. They are grown for their abundance ...

Figs might be the most important fruit in the world. These trees were the first to be cultivated. Civilization as we know it can be traced back to this fruit! As easy as they are to grow, the fruit ...

WEST BRIGHTON — By Memorial Day, the fig tree in my back yard sprouts its floppy, hand-shaped leaves. But it was not the case this year: As of today, this summery plant looks more like a Charlie Brown ...

“By themselves the figs could build a forest,” ecologist EJH Corner wrote almost a century ago. Now a fascinating book, Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers: the secret history and redemptive future of fig ...