IN THE GARDEN: Wait until spring to assess winter damage to plants

Help! I have several fig trees and am not sure how to prune them. The bushy tree you see has over time become a shrub/bush ...
Americus Times-Recorder

Four sticks

Recently, I ordered four sticks in the mail. This might seem like an odd choice for how to spend my hard-earned money, but these particular sticks are alive. Four different […] ...
Los Angeles Times

Review: The fig tree is the best analogy for the indecisive

As someone who was an avid reader growing up, it is a shock that I haven’t so much as touched a book now that I am older. But there is a reason for this. My biggest motivator for reading was that ...
Digital Trends

The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft gets a splash of color with new Fig variant

When Amazon unveiled its new Kindle Scribe lineup last year, marketing images showcased a plum-colored Kindle Scribe Colorsoft model. But when the device launched on December 10, that finish wasn’t ...
Mongabay

Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo

The Iban community in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, says it believes large strangler fig trees are inhabited by dangerous spirits, leading community members to protect these trees from harm ...
Times Colonist

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Despite what you hear, Vancouver Island isn't semi-tropical

Parts of Vancouver Island were recently given a new plant hardiness zone designation — but we're still in a temperate climate, and those cold-tender plants need protection. No. Our climate is ...
Domain

8 Thiesfield Street, Fig Tree Pocket QLD 4069

8 Thiesfield Street, Fig Tree Pocket is a 6 bedroom house. What are the key property features of 8 Thiesfield Street, Fig Tree Pocket? Explore all key property features for 8 Thiesfield Street, Fig ...
Times Colonist

Helen Chesnut: Small fig tree might be at an 'in-training' stage

Dear Helen: I have two fig trees. One, a Desert King, yields a big first crop. The other, smaller fig tree (unknown variety) does not get a first crop that ripens. The first crop figs do not develop ...
Gothamist

Attention, afigcionados: Astoria's getting a fig week and festival

One afigcionado is making this corner of Queens a far more fruit-friendly place. Buoyed by the success of Astoria’s first-ever fig tree scion exchange in March — which brought in some 200 people to ...
The Fresno Bee

Fig fanatic brings exotic fruit flavors to customers. ‘Part of Fresno’s history’

Brian Melton cultivates over 300 fig varieties in Fresno through grafting. Local customers buy Melton's figs directly via social media and porch pickup. Fresno remains key to U.S. fig production, ...
The Conversation

Sylvia Plath’s ‘fig tree analogy’ from The Bell Jar is being misappropriated

Elisha Wise will receive funding from the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (ARCH) from October 2025. In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood ...