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 Beach, ...

Q. I have a Ficus benjamina that’s thriving but it’s been in the same pot for many years. I believe that it is now pot bound and needs to be transplanted into a larger container. What do I need to ...

Q.: I am puzzled by a Ficus benjamina that has been in my sunroom for the past 25 years, some of which have been lean, some not. Last December and for the first time, it produced some sort of seeds or ...

For Mackenzie Roth, a 25-year-old film marketer based in Sherman Oaks, it began with a trip six months ago to the Home Depot in Glendale. An avid home gardener, Roth has filled her apartment with a ...

Ficus benjamina L. (Moraceae) is an exotic ornamental plant in Brazil. The aim of this study was to identify a defoliator and its parasitoid on F. benjamina plants in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil and ...

Property owners who decide to replace their ficus hedges with native plantings this summer will get help from the town. At the direction of the Town Council, the Public Works Department is picking up ...

There was time when one of the hallmarks of Palm Beach was thick hedges of ficus benjamina towering above the sidewalks to provide privacy for the homes beyond them. But times are changing. This past ...

If naturalists can’t convince you, maybe nature can. Some types of towering trees can mean trouble in landscaping and tragedy in a hurricane. Falling trees during Hurricane Katrina’s initial blasts ...

Host specificity tests on Gynaikothrips ficorum (Marchal) and Gynaikothrips uzeli (Zimmerman) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) have shown that under experimental conditions, G. ficorum will induce leaf ...