September is the ideal time to make a start on an important gardening job that can also help suppress weeds, according to ...

From now until the first hard frost, everything we do in the garden is all about next year.

Council chambers have erupted in debate over a plan to remove trees to make way for a new residential development in Woree. Which Cairns councillors passionately argued both for and against the ...

One afigcionado is making this corner of Queens a far more fruit-friendly place. Buoyed by the success of Astoria’s first-ever fig tree scion exchange in March — which brought in some 200 people to ...

Brian Melton cultivates over 300 fig varieties in Fresno through grafting. Local customers buy Melton's figs directly via social media and porch pickup. Fresno remains key to U.S. fig production, ...

In colder countries, many growers bring the plants into garages or sheds in winter for extra protection. Fig trees do need to go dormant in winter, so if you go down this route, wait until the tree or ...

How do trees regrow roots after being cut? A new study sheds light on this question using cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics to track how poplar stems regenerate roots. Researchers mapped gene ...

Plants have a remarkable ability to regenerate tissues and organs, a trait widely exploited in agriculture through cutting-based propagation. This process begins when injury signals trigger auxin ...

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about fig trees that thrive in our Southeast Texas climate and yield bountiful harvests. Thanks to this year’s wonderful weather, our fig trees are bursting with fruit ...

A mugumo tree. A discovery, unveiled at the prestigious Goldschmidt Conference in Czech Republic, centres on Kenya’s Ficus wakefieldii—a relative of the sacred Mugumo tree that has grown across East ...

Some species of fig trees possess an extraordinary ability. They can store calcium carbonate inside their trunks, essentially turning parts of themselves into stone. A new study shows that these trees ...