I received this email from Carol Murphy about her ailing ficus tree: “I’m having a problem with a ficus that I’ve had for years. It’s 5 1/2 feet tall from the soil and has a trunk bottom circumference ...

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 ...

Many houseplants show changes during the winter months, and the ficus is no exception. Increased leaf loss is often noticed only after a few weeks when the plant becomes visibly sparser. This often ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fig leaf with brown edges grows on a tree - Amilat/Shutterstock Brown leaves on a tree can be a sign of many different problems.

In some parts of Santa Monica, the preferred obscenity is "Oh, fig!" We are cursed with aging ficus trees that City Hall refuses to remove. Note that a ficus is basically a fig tree. Each tree ...

The beauty of paying attention to the plants around us is that we are forever discovering something new. Just the other day I was taking a walk down a neighborhood street with whose flora I thought I ...

Beverly Hills has just cut down many ficus macrocarpa, also known as Indian laurel fig, trees, and a total of 87 more there are scheduled for destruction. Our own city of Whittier has cut down healthy ...

The saws were buzzing and the branches were falling on 24th Street Wednesday — the final act in a years-long saga over the fate of dozens of ficus trees that line the popular Mission District corridor ...

Golden Gem ficus (Ficus altissima "Golden Gem") is a beautiful hybrid. In warm tropical weather of its native habitat, it can grow to a very sizeable tree — up to 100 feet. In central Ohio, Golden Gem ...