Ficus trees outside Universal Studios were severely cut back in July, reducing shade for striking actors and writers and potentially harming the trees' long-term health. (Chris Pizzello / Invision / ...

Pruning a ficus is really pretty easy. You want to prune the branches that are getting out of hand completely back to a side branch. Don't just cut the branch back any old place, leaving a stub. Cut ...

The National Garden Bureau has named 2026 as The Year of the Ficus. Ficus plants thrive in bright light, require watering when the top inch of soil is dry, and benefit from added humidity. Common ...

Although most trees benefit from winter pruning, some benefit from early spring trims in March. Here's what you need to know ...

ENCINITASENCINITAS — Instead of moving forward with plans to chop down four huge ficus trees in downtown Encinitas, the city will undertake an emergency pruning job to reduce their leafy canopy and ...

I'm giving my Ficus microcarpa "Fancy" a prune before it goes inside for winter. I also take a look at the aerial roots on my first bonsai, a Ficus microcarpa grown from seed. Ficus microcarpa, also ...

Q. We have two neighbors with ficus hedges that are now 20 feet tall. They have at least 45 trees planted 11/2 feet apart. I already had 3-inch-diameter roots cut out because they extended over my ...

We have two 15-foot tall ficus trees that were severely damaged by the freeze. Much of the plants look dead but there are some new shoots on the lower portions. How do we trim the trees and when? Let ...

Tens of thousands of mature street trees in Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speeds and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...

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 ...