Figs have always been one of my favorite fruit trees, and I find there’s something special about having one in the home landscape. These fruit trees provide beauty, shade and a steady supply of ...

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Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard. Every Southern garden should have a fig tree. These small trees or shrubs produce delicious fruit with flavors best experienced ripe from the tree.

Fig trees are prolific growers and can mature at 10 to 30 feet tall and wide. Pruning controls their size so they grow more bushlike than treelike. Native to Asia and the Mediterranean, they thrive in ...