Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fig trees are prolific growers and can mature at 10 to 30 feet tall and wide. Pruning controls their size so they grow more ...

Figs are unique among fruits grown in North Carolina. Unlike most fruit, in which the edible portion is matured ovary tissue derived directly from flowers, fig fruit are inverted flowers surrounded ...

If you would like to add spring-flowering trees to your landscape, January and February are excellent months to plant them.

Most varieties of figs do extremely well in the New Orleans area — sometimes, it seems, a little too well. Many fig trees are treated as a “plant it and forget about it” tree, attended only when the ...

Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard.

Q: I am having a very difficult time finding someone to prune my fruit trees the way you recommend. I am older and no longer able to direct a novice (which has failed), much less do it myself. The ...

Pruning ornamental trees and shrubs are both different and similar to pruning fruit trees and shrubs. First the similarities. Major pruning (using a saw or loppers) is done during the winter months ...