Standard Fig against a blue,blue sky...

that's a beautiful sky. it was dank and damp here. prefer the sharp frosts.

Expected heavy frost again tonight....

Is the Fig the twiggy plant with the white label in the shadows? I hope the frost didn't destroy the buds.

Sue the fig is the tall skinny one growing above the fence in the middle of the photograph...I cannot see a label lol!!

That is where I thought it looked to be, as my fig, even indoors looks skinny. The label must be just a light reflection.

Ahh possibly!

Do you have the fig in the ground by the fence?

Ficus species (we grow hundreds) are horrible by fences here. They grow so gigantic and have a monster root system. If someone plants a Ficus macrophylla (Australian Banyan) or Ficus elastica 'Decora' (rubber tree) here by a fence it would be destroyed in a few years.

Look at this photo of an 80' (25 m) tall:

http://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/179957-ficus-elastica-decora-rubber-tree/all

Lovely picture DD. We have had fog here and today it's fog again.

Delonix this is the common Brown Turkey which can be grown in a container or fan trained against a wall or fence, roots should be restricted so as to get a good crop of fruit!!
Lindak thanks, miserable, cold and damp at the moment, expected colder weather to follow then hopefully going milder.........we shall see!!

I've heard 'Brown Turkey' is a very hardy variety. It's smaller too, right? Most varieties of fig grow to at least 30' or 10 m tall here and their root system is huge.

There is an old fig tree on the allotments field where I used to work with Gerry & had my own plot. It has been there I'm sure the 50 years since my family moved up here from London in 1966.

It is a big tree & has lots of brevas but if any ever reach maturity I don't know. Perhaps some do in the milder years but I've never seen any. Not that I've ever been up close to it, not even during the 8 years I worked on the plots there.

The first year I helped Gerry out with his plot he had planted two fig trees on his half allotment, which was beside his main, full allotment, the previous year. They really looked forlorn for about 3 years till suddenly they took off one year.

When Gerry wanted to put up his greenhouse he decided it would have to go in his Raspberry plot. So the day before he was going to start digging out the foundations for it I went down & dug out all the canes that might be affected & planted them on his half allotment around the fig trees! I figured that as Raspberries are very hungry plants they would provide competition for the figs. It seems I was right because just a couple of years later they started to produce their first brevas, none came to maturity though.

Just last year Gerry told me he was able to pick some ripe figs from his trees! I never got to see any. I saw the fruit growing but I never saw them when ripe. The trees are only about 2.5 meters (+/- 8ft) high & about 2m (+/- 6ft) wide.

Balcony we keep ours cut back to a manageable size.......we get lots of figs, but the flipping squirrels beat us to them, every time, just run along the fence, and help themselves!! it was not an ideal place to site it really, but we wanted some cover for the fence, and they grow quickly here...

LOL! I can just imagine the squirrels running along the fence! :-D)

It is quite amusing, but annoying that we never get to eat any of the figs.....

I can quite understand that!