The wildly popular houseplant is evergreen in nature and adds year-round color and interest to homes and offices where they are displayed. "Though able to reach heights over 100 feet when grown in ...

One of the best indoor-outdoor container trees for Central Florida is, without a doubt, the ficus. The plant is quite forgiving. Still, two things must be kept in mind when growing a ficus: It is not ...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going indoors, especially during heat waves. If you are like me, the heat is really taking a toll on your gardening activities this summer. I garden because I ...

Ficus elastica, or the rubber tree, is the stalwart of the houseplant stable. Its large dark green leaves and rosey-pink pointy leaf buds are instantly recognisable. “Ficus” relates to the tree that ...

More than 800 species of Ficus, ranging from vines to gigantic trees, grow throughout the world's tropical and subtropical regions, so it's not surprising that many species of this extremely diverse ...

The first plant I bought when I arrived in Florida was a ficus, or weeping fig. I couldn’t resist. A similar-size tree would have cost three times as much up North. Because ficus are cultivated in ...