Time for your second year outside, fig tree

With a head start. My fig tree whisperer friend John texted with the message that it was time for our fig to move from its first winter shelter inside our second bedroom to the great outdoors of our backyard. Last year this baby started its life, planted carefully by John and lasting its first summer…

Don’t get confused, teenage fig

Indoor sprout. My dear wife Karen noticed something pushing the sheet we’d placed on our wintering teenage fig tree higher and higher. Keep it dormant, said friend John, our fig tree expert who’d gifted us this tree as a baby last spring. The covered tree seemed to have other ideas. We’re hoping this does not…

Wintering our second fig tree

Yes, there’s a tree under there. We decided this fig tree is staying inside this winter. After last year’s special delivery from friend John didn’t make it through winter one in our shed, my dear wife Karen and I thought our second downstairs bedroom was the likely choice for the replacement tree that we nurtured…

Hello, baby fig tree

My friend John visited after work to diagnose the big fig tree he’d delivered in November. We’d been texting about some concerns rattling around my brain since he’d told me it was OK to take it out from its winter home in our shed. He’d mulled over my texted photos and decided it was time…

Our new fig tree likes its winter home in the shed

My friend John brought over the fig tree grown in his backyard and designated for delivery for my dear wife Karen and I to love and nature in our space since I admired his grove of trees a few miles away and listened carefully to how he coaxes them to life and cares for them…

He gives a fig

My friend John invited me just a few miles down the road in our shared town for dinner with him and his terrific mother and a little wiffle-ball golf in their lovely backyard. First, though, he explained the fantastic fig tree grove that circles the patio. He plants them, cares for them greatly, feasts on…