Maintaining a happy and healthy fig tree is essential if you want to get tasty and juicy fruit, and the key to keeping one in top health is to prune it properly. However, there's an art to this task ...

Fig trees (Ficus carica) thrive in USDA hardiness zones 8 through 10, though they can also grow in colder areas with proper protection. In addition to providing shade and beauty to your yard—not to ...

The secret to the perfect fig is in your shears. A few strategic cuts turn a tangled thicket into a high-yielding masterpiece. Here’s how to master pruning fig trees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty / Jasenka Arbanas Fig trees (Ficus carica) thrive in USDA hardiness zones 8 through 10, though they can also grow in colder ...

Fig trees are prolific growers and can mature at 10 to 30 feet tall and wide. Pruning controls their size so they grow more bushlike than treelike. Native to Asia and the Mediterranean, they thrive in ...

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 ...

Joellen Dimond talks about creating a spring gardening checklist and Bill Colvard prunes a fig tree. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of ...

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 ...

February is a good month to prune deciduous trees in many climates. As they are dormant, they suffer less stress from pruning, and there are fewer pests and diseases around at this time of year.