The secret to the perfect fig is in your shears. A few strategic cuts turn a tangled thicket into a high-yielding masterpiece ...

Ficus trees outside Universal Studios were severely cut back in July, reducing shade for striking actors and writers and potentially harming the trees' long-term health. (Chris Pizzello / Invision / ...

You can plant this low-maintenance fruit tree in your yard for an abundance of tasty fruit. Although the common fig tree (Ficus carica) is native to the Mediterranean and central Asia, many U.S.

ENCINITASENCINITAS — Instead of moving forward with plans to chop down four huge ficus trees in downtown Encinitas, the city will undertake an emergency pruning job to reduce their leafy canopy and ...

EncinitasEncinitas — It could cost $1.2 million over the next five years to prune all of downtown’s huge ficus street trees and repair root-caused cracks in the city’s sidewalks, a new report states.

In February, before spring has arrived and the bugs are back out, it's a great time to do some yard maintenance. These trees benefit from a quick pruning.

Q. We have two neighbors with ficus hedges that are now 20 feet tall. They have at least 45 trees planted 11/2 feet apart. I already had 3-inch-diameter roots cut out because they extended over my ...

We have two 15-foot tall ficus trees that were severely damaged by the freeze. Much of the plants look dead but there are some new shoots on the lower portions. How do we trim the trees and when? Let ...

Tens of thousands of mature street trees in Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speeds and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...

Severe pruning — a.k.a. “coat racking” — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse. Evergreen trees like the ficus that were heavily pruned outside ...