Baked Fig Dessert
Geoff Jansz demonstrated how to make the quintessential autumn dessert, using Black Genoa figs (Ficus carica 'Black Genoa'). These delicious edible figs are at their best from January to April. Place the figs split-side up in a small baking dish, ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Dangerous Roots
One of the most fashionable plants in Australia at the moment is Ficus benjamina, the weeping fig. Pots of standardised weeping figs clipped and shaped into balls on sticks can often be seen dramatically framing entrances or doorways; left ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Don's Best Indoor Figs
Indoor plants can add enormous beauty to your home, as well as giving it a natural, relaxed feel. One of the most fashionable plants in Australia at the moment is Ficus benjamina, the weeping fig. Although it is a rainforest giant in its natural ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Formal Domestic Design
Box hedges (Buxus sempervirens) define the driveway and entrance to the house, along with a row of Hill's weeping figs (Ficus microcarpa var. hillii) trimmed into an attractive ball on a stick shape. Low hedges have been created using mondo grass ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Figs with Maggots
Don noticed a group of Rainbow Lorikeets feeding in a Port Jackson fig tree (Ficus rubiginosa). All the native evergreen figs, including the Port Jackson and Morton Bay figs, produce genuine fig fruit. Fig fruit forms from an enlarged, hollow ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Creeping Fig Hedge
Don showed how to create a lovely, soft visual effect in the garden with a Clayton's hedge - the hedge you have when you don't really have a hedge. An ugly masonry fence along the front of a house was completely covered by a creeping fig (Ficus ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
FERTILISER RECOMMENDATIONS
Figs (Ficus carica) can produce good crops even under fairly low fertility levels. Soil cultivation should be only superficial otherwise feeding roots will be damaged. Trees are very sensitive to dry soil conditions and regular supplies of water ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Moreton Bay Fig
Take a walk in the Adelaide park lands this spring you are more than likely to come across the very characteristic The Moreton Bay Fig is a rainforest tree native to NSW and Queensland. It is a member of the Ficus family; it is slow growing and ... [... more]
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