Fig trees are a popular choice for indoor greenery. There are over 850 different species -- and not all of them adapt well to ...

Grow figs in pots or outside in your garden for homegrown fruit Growing figs can be extremely rewarding—even beginning ...

Rather than a fig tree's blossoms being pollinated by bees—as happens with apples, for example—the fig fruit is an inverted flower. A small wasp crawls inside the fruit to pollinate it and ...

The strangler fig, as a hemi-epiphyte, is renowned for its unique "strangling" behavior. Its colonization and establishment on some trees in tropical urban green spaces form a distinctive ...

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme "the beauty of trees". Here are some of the pictures we received from around the world. Lucy Coughlan: "I went out early to capture ...

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches ...

Trees have been worshipped for millennia. Take a tour of the world’s most sacred and iconic trees—from Abraham’s oak in the West Bank to California’s Lone Cypress.

But it is no ordinary tree. The majestic fig tree, which is 100 years old and towers over a section of Waiyaki Way in the west of Nairobi, had been sentenced to death to make way for an expressway ...

• Make a “base plan.” Measure your property with a tape measure or the measuring app on your smart phone. Plot it on grid ...

For reasons of convenience, many figs are imported hard and immature. When buying figs, it's worth noting that they do not ripen after picking, so choose the ripest fruits you can. Look for figs ...

Ordinary transforms into extraordinary in this masterfully rebuilt family home resting on 1,320sqm in one of the most desired streets in Fig Tree Pocket. A residence of timeless elegance within an ...