Severe pruning — a.k.a. "coat racking" — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse.

Today, the ficus trees stirring the controversy — believed to date to the late 1960s — create a shaded canopy across the avenue. Some of their benefits and drawbacks are on clear display.

Ficus need monthly deep soaking during the hot dry months. Brian Kissinger is director of horticulture at the Desert Botanical Garden. E-mail garden questions to bkissinger@dbg.org.

In a bid to strike back at the whitefly pest, the town is poised to ban all new plantings of Ficus benjamina . Ficus benjamina, also known as weeping fig, has been a mainstay for decades in Palm Be… ...

A row of previously bushy Ficus trees on Barham Boulevard that were inexplicably pruned over the hot weekend has only heightened the frustration of WGA strikers at Universal — especially since ...

I think it's safe for the ficus to be in your bedroom or any room in the house. It's likely one of you releases more carbon dioxide than the plant. And yes, NASA studies have shown that plants ...

Merchants and residents of the lower 24th Street corridor are under attack — from above and below. By ficus trees. Problematic ficus trees are increasingly becoming a headache for area denizens, with ...