STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On the “to do” list for this weekend for the Toths of Westerleigh: remove the buckets and wrapping from the fig tree in the yard to unleash a new season. The time will ...

Question for Dan Gill: My fig tree is plentiful with green figs; however, they are not ripening. By this time in previous years, figs were beginning to ripen. Others in Metairie, where we live ...

Is there a great secret in getting a fig tree to bear fruit ... There are shades of lilac, pink, white and red; single or double flowering varieties; and varying heights from 6 inches to 2 ...

Flowering on the early fruit trees will begin ... Question: I have a beautiful fig tree in our yard. I love the big leaves but I hate the figs. We do not eat figs and it makes a big mess.

They then fly off to find another flowering fig. Timing is everything, since the wasps don’t live long and the trees often flower unpredictably throughout the year. Often, figs that have been ...

The ovules are inside the flowers, as they are in other flowering plants. But on a fig tree the flowers themselves are tucked inside an unripe fruit. It’s an inside-out bouquet of up to 10,000 ...

Fig wasps are only two to three millimetres long and live an average of two to three days, but often fly 10 kilometres or more to get from a ripe tree to a flowering tree. Global warming is ...