Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard. Every Southern garden should have a fig tree. These small trees or shrubs produce delicious fruit with flavors best experienced ripe from the tree.

Here's PennLive garden writer George Weigel's Plant Pick of the Week for this week: * Common name: Fig 'Chicago Hardy' * Botanical name: Ficus carica 'Chicago Hardy' * What it is: Fresh figs are some ...

Your good advice got my baby fig safely through the last winter and now I want to know if I need do anything to help it through this one. No longer a baby, it is now about 6 feet tall and seems very ...

DEAR JOY: Uncover your fig tree on a cloudy day just after the last average frost day, which is April 15. Sign up for Best Bets, your go-to planner for things to do on LI Get ready for the weekend ...

I am not particularly fond of fig trees, with their knotty trunks contrasted against tropical-looking foliage. And even though the fruit is photogenic, I also don’t hold much enthusiasm for it fresh.

Unlike a lot of popular houseplants, the leaves of the weeping fig are small, delicate and plentiful. If the big leaf jungle theme is not for you, but you want to grow a tree indoors, this might just ...