Moving from a career as a chiropractor to one as a florist might not seem like the easiest transition, but for Denise Mills, founder of Fig & Flower in Annapolis, it was completely natural. While a ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Fiddly Fig Flowers and Boutique is blooming with business as it approaches the busy Mother's Day weekend, despite ongoing tariff concerns affecting flower prices. Owner Sheryl White ...
I’m something of a weed snob. Having spent ages as a consumer, and now several years adjacent to the growing legal industry, I’ve been fortunate to try a lot of really special flowers. While I’m ...
The story of the fig and the wasp goes back as many years as man has grown fig trees, because fig wasps are the only pollinators for several species of fig trees. It is said that they co-evolved. This ...
Imagine a cozy, eco­friendly Sephora. The locally owned Fig & Flower offers only nontoxic brands (like RMS Beauty and Alima Pure) in a luxe but inviting Poncey-Highland shop, where employees help ...
Jerry looks at the wonderful world of figs and some of the specific plants in this group. The common edible fig (Ficus carica) has been grown for its delicious fruit since about 9,000BC - possibly ...
Did you know that the fig is actually not a fruit in the classical sense of the word? What we eat is actually is made up of hundreds of inverted ripe flowers enclosed inside a syconium. There are ...
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Gardening 101: Common Fig

The next plant I plan to buy for myself (and not for a garden client) will definitely be a fig tree. I usually harvest figs from my clients’ trees, and any fruit that goes uneaten I turn into yummy ...