Answer: This is a rather typical situation I hear about quite frequently. I suggest keeping the trees for the shade they provide. You can trim the roots near the ...

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 ...

Severe pruning — a.k.a. “coat racking” — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse. Evergreen trees like the ficus that were heavily pruned outside ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Every spring, Peter Cundari turns his Eltingville backyard into a fig farm. He pulls out hundreds of potted trees — a collection that includes 35 varieties — that slumber ...

The Tempe City Council decided in late October to continue using the ficus tree as the main tree on Mill Avenue after months of debate and discussion. The decision came after an experiment to replace ...

Susan Cervantes, founder of Precita Eyes Muralists, sits on one of the ficus stumps she saved in 2021. Susan Cervantes has made a new home for two of the 126 ficuses that once lined 24th Street. As of ...

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sign up Merchants and residents of the lower 24th Street ...

Ficus trees removed from Milpas Street have been repurposed as wood shavings and are being used by Channel Island Restoration. Credit: Daniel Green / Noozhawk photo It’s the circle of life, as they ...

Numbered are the days for hundreds of ficus trees along Magnolia Boulevard in Burbank. Several residents last week were surprised to hear the city is in the process of removing more than 400 ficus ...