When autumn rolls around, gardeners may believe their job is done for the year. However, there are still plenty of things you can do to treat your garden in October. Propagating your fig tree (Ficus ...

What is this plant? I bought it a year ago and it thrived for about nine months before the leaves started breaking and browning. It had furry white mould on the backs of leaf stalks, as well as white ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Every spring, Peter Cundari turns his Eltingville backyard into a fig farm. He pulls out hundreds of potted trees — a collection that includes 35 varieties — that slumber ...

Merchants and residents of the lower 24th Street corridor are under attack — from above and below. By ficus trees. Problematic ficus trees are increasingly becoming a headache for area denizens, with ...

Ficus elastica, or the rubber tree, is the stalwart of the houseplant stable. Its large dark green leaves and rosey-pink pointy leaf buds are instantly recognisable. “Ficus” relates to the tree that ...

Tens of thousands of mature street trees in Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speeds and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...