It's not too early to get started nurturing some new trees. In fact, one fruit species does spectacularly when propagated indoors from cuttings.

If you're interested in growing your own fruit trees but live in a colder climate, you still have options. Consider this ...

I’ve been tending fig trees for years as a gardener, but one that always comes to mind is a grand ‘Brown Turkey’ espaliered flat against a vast stone barn in South Wales. The garden sat at the bottom ...

On a gray, chilly December morning in Sewickley, Pa., Michele Vaccaro and his assistant are digging a trench in a garden. "It looks like we're burying somebody over here — a body," Vaccaro says. Cast ...

If you’ve got fig trees, listen up because there’s a new troublemaker that’s headed our way — the black fig fly (Silba adipata). Hailing all the way from the Mediterranean region, this little critter ...

Take advantage of fig tree hardiness to harvest figs even in cold climates. Learn how to prune fig trees for a bountiful crop and how to prep a fig tree for winter. Many years ago, when I first became ...

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 ...

One of my friends at the pool asked me if we really could grow and harvest the figs in Ohio. From the latest research I have done, what I discovered is yes, you can grow them and there is a potential ...

Biologist David Mackay got a surprise when he began studying the birds visiting fig trees in his native Australia: While he expected to see plenty of species coming to eat the figs, he didn’t expect ...