Q: We recently came back to Tucson from a week in San Diego to find about a hundred or more June bugs on our mature fig tree. We have lived here for over 20 years and this has never happened before.

We love our fig trees (Ficus carica), which have been cultivated for centuries, with archaeological evidence of their harvests dating back to Neolithic times. Native to the Mediterranean, today the ...

Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard. Every Southern garden should have a fig tree. These small trees or shrubs produce delicious fruit with flavors best experienced ripe from the tree.