Although fig trees are generally hardy in North Florida, occasional cold snaps can cause damage. To prepare for freezing temperatures, consider wrapping the trunk with burlap or frost cloth and ...

is one of the most interesting trees in a North American Everglades tropical hardwood hammock. Strangler figs, sometimes called golden fig are native to south Florida and the West Indies.

Can fig trees be grown here in the Northeast Florida area? If so, can you tell me a little about the tree? Grown originally in the Old World tropics, Asia Minor and the Mediterranean, figs can ...

Q: I have several fig trees that I planted in 2010 in my back yard. The first year, I got a great harvest from two of the three trees, but the following years only my brown turkey seems to go to ...

A friend from church had a huge brown turkey fig tree that was always plentiful ... Plum is often seen as an evergreen ornamental tree in Florida, although it is grown commercially for its fruit ...

QUESTION: Every year our fig tree sets a good crop ... Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida. Write to him in care of The Orlando Sentinel, MP-6, P.O. Box ...

Their latest planting happened on April 13, when Moriaty led volunteers in adding four trees — an Olympian fig, a Lady papaya, a Florida Prince Peach and a black sapote — to a vacant corner ...

These wild native fig trees produce tremendous amounts of fruit ... Indigenous peoples and early settlers in Florida relied on the edible fruit of ficus aurea, which also was used to make a ...