Many fruit crops, such as most apple varieties, have to be cross-pollinated, meaning you need to grow more than one apple tree in order for them to bear fruit. Pollen from a different variety of apple ...

Growing a potted fig tree is a rewarding process, and can be done year-round with the right conditions. Place the container ...

Eaten fresh from the tree or cooked in a multitude of dishes, figs are a favorite naturally sweet snack packed with nutritional goodness. One of the oldest “fruits” in recorded history, figs grow on ...

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.

Across Britain, gardeners swap whispers about a chilly-season trick that brings wood to life without heaters or greenhouses.

Fig trees, Ficus carica, are part of the huge Ficus genus which includes around 850 different species. There are thousands of different cultivars around the world. The fig originated in the Middle ...

It may not be easy — but it isn’t impossible, either. By Margaret Roach It looked like the best fig year ever, with maybe 20 fruits forming on my potted tree as the season progressed. But frost is ...

The tropical tree, known for its gestural leafs and grand presence, is popping up on home blogs, in gardening shops, and even New York City plant store The Sill is constantly selling out of the ...

A venerable Moreton Bay fig tree cracked open and fell at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument earlier this month. Replacing such a landmark tree — one that had, for 144 years, enthralled and ...