When gardening is in your blood, you simply can’t resist. An unmade bed or two can wait, but to those of us who are so afflicted, a few hours spent creating beauty is a necessary antidote to a ...

Among misleading botanical names, creeping fig — Ficus pumila — ranks high on the list. That’s because the name translates to ‘’dwarf’’ or ‘’puny’’ fig, and there’s nothing puny about this ...

Ficus Pumila commonly called Creeping Fig originated in East Asia: China, Japan and Vietnam. It is a dense, rapid-growing vine with small, heart-shaped evergreen leaves. This vine is best suited to ...

Q: We have a wall covered in creeping fig. How can we protect it from freezing this winter?Sondra Cundiff, email A: Ask at your local nursery if they sell frost cloth. This is a lightweight polyester ...

Imagine a houseplant that combines the tropical allure of a rubber plant (ficus elastica) and the climbing vines of an English ivy plant. It turns out that such a plant exists, in the form of the ...

Elsie Taylor Owens and husband Jimmy have a soft spot for historical architecture and gardens, but when they finished building their Federal-inspired home, funds for landscaping were nearly exhausted.

Josh uses a lot of walls to create garden ‘rooms’ in his backyard. Greening up the walls softens them visually and helps keep outdoor spaces cool. One wall is covered with a creeping fig, but it does ...

1 Prune suckering sprouts away from the base of trees. Both California and Brazilian peppers are infamous for forming suckers, as are tree-trained crape myrtles, carob and olive trees. After pruning, ...