Apples, figs, persimmons, and pears all benefit from pruning in early spring to keep the tree healthy and producing fruit.

The dying host appears to have been “strangled”, hence the name strangler fig. The dead host tree often leaves the fig with a hollow trunk when it decomposes, providing more nutrients as it ...

But that doesn't mean tragedies don't touch the Bay State. Longtime residents may remember the infamous "Boston Strangler," who killed 13 women in the city in the 1960s, or the "New Bedford ...

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ecosystem.

Doonside Technology High students will pitch a plan to plant native strangler figs to shade the school's tennis courts, which the students found was the hottest part of the playground. Using ...

Cosmo Kramer is under arrest! Nah, he’s not really the Smog Strangler, but the cops don’t know he’s not the real serial killer. That’s Tobias Lehigh Nagy, the guy who the police pick up ...

a clay pit where she and the other kids rode their bikes, cricket was played on the dirt road that is now Kingsway and climbing a big, sprawling fig tree.