Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Petite negri.  Chewed bark.  Branches snipped of completely. The only new damage to any trees or shrubs, is the figs.  And that's ev...

I don't know what chewed these fig branches. They have been on the ground for a couple of weeks. I read that figs are deer resistant...

Lattarula before pruning .  This was a challenge.  Growth this year was rampant, making thick tall canes, as tall as the house.  Lattarula...

Multiple stages of ripening. I didn't mind not getting breba figs from this tree, this summer, because I thought this would happen. I...

Asian pears have set lots of fruits. I forget which variety this is, on the 3-graft asian pear tree. Here is another variety on the s...

So far the fig trees are looking great this year. Several are loaded with brebas. I can't complain. King fig. This variety is consi...

Here is a bit of a backyard orchard progress report. Backyard orchard also includes front yard. It also includes strawberries, grapes, and...

Over the past 2 weeks, all of the breba figs ripened. These are the "Summer crop". The number was very limited, although the trees...

This is a link to the complex and confusing sex life of figs. It's an amazing story. Sex determination and life cycle. More About Fig R...

Here is the result so far, of the ziplock fig cutting experiment. basically, fig cuttings were wrapped in moist paper towels, left on high...

Today was a chance to putter around the growing greener yard. Nice, chilly late winter morning. - After debating for a day, I checked the ...

From a post on the gardenweb fig forum , this fig tree was planted in the Brittany region of France at the religious order of the Capuchin (...

January. Cuttings started in yogurt cups, in seed starting soil. April. Now they have been moved up into larger containers, and are out...

Actually I pruned them a couple of weeks ago. Here they are today.

After I mailed some cuttings from the Vancouver fig, one gardenweb member mailed back some Desert King cuttings. Despite my resolution not...