Once a landscaping staple in suburbs and planned communities, the lush and leafy ficus has become a civic nuisance--its thick roots buckling sidewalks and streets, breaching sewer lines and cracking ...

Offering the world a wall of glossy green leaves, it wraps around subdivisions and marches in neat flat lines down miles of roadway, dominating and cloaking local scenery. Dense, preened to boxy ...

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 ...

In some parts of Santa Monica, the preferred obscenity is "Oh, fig!" We are cursed with aging ficus trees that City Hall refuses to remove. Note that a ficus is basically a fig tree. Each tree ...

ANAHEIM – A neighborhood spat is sprouting over whether to remove 11 towering ficus trees that have been around for 60 years. Some residents of Pine Way, Wilhelmina Street and Janss Street want to ...

Answer: This is a rather typical situation I hear about quite frequently. I suggest keeping the trees for the shade they provide. You can trim the roots near the ...

Developmental changes in the root apex and accompanying changes in lateral root growth and root hydraulic conductivity were examined for Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Miller during rapid drying, as occurs ...