To the editor: It’s almost a crime that full-grown trees that offer much-needed shade as well as other numerous benefits for the environment are removed only because the wrong tree was chosen in the ...

A bonsai looks like a small work of art: delicate, elegant, and seemingly ageless. But for those trying this unique plant ...

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 ...

All the ficus trees on a three-block stretch of Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier will be ripped out to make way for the construction of a promenade under a city-approved plan. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles ...

Crews will remove four of the massive ficus trees that line Tempe City Hall. The trees, located near the council chambers, have structural defects that could cause them to decay in the next three to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Residents are fighting back after city ...

You can name a tree — but that won’t save it from the axe. Such was the fate of the overgrown-yet-resplendent ficus tree that stood on the border of Redondo Beach and Torrance for some 40 years.

One of the mystery plants for this week was a series of trees with large roots on the ground and around buildings. There was a lot of interest in the plants, with quite a few guesses. While there were ...