As indoor plants move from being a supporting act to the main feature, this year’s trend encourages plant lovers to seek out the unusual, the quirky and the collectable. The training of the stems, as ...

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, ...

Everybody seems to hate ficus hedges, and yet most of us have them. They make a fast-growing privacy screen – after all, they are frustrated ficus benjamina trees. And they keep growing if you don’t ...

These indoor trees can double as a statement-making interior design element. Katarzyna Bialasiewicz/Getty Images Ficus trees, also known as fig trees, are popularly grown as houseplants to add height ...

More than 1,600 mature street trees in Long Beach and tens of thousands throughout Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speed and threatens to ...