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.

July in Louisiana marks many celebrations, one of which is fig harvest season. Figs (Ficus carica), native to the Middle East and western Asia, have become naturalized in North America and are widely ...

Here's PennLive garden writer George Weigel's Plant Pick of the Week for this week: * Common name: Fig 'Chicago Hardy' * Botanical name: Ficus carica 'Chicago Hardy' * What it is: Fresh figs are some ...

You can grow them in your garden, in well-draining soil, but you have to keep their roots restricted if you want them to fruit. So growing them in a pot that can be moved is often the best option.

Unlike a lot of popular houseplants, the leaves of the weeping fig are small, delicate and plentiful. If the big leaf jungle theme is not for you, but you want to grow a tree indoors, this might just ...