These indoor trees can double as a statement-making interior design element. Katarzyna Bialasiewicz/Getty Images Ficus trees, also known as fig trees, are popularly grown as houseplants to add height ...

Beverly Hills has just cut down many ficus macrocarpa, also known as Indian laurel fig, trees, and a total of 87 more there are scheduled for destruction. Our own city of Whittier has cut down healthy ...

It appeared that the fate of towering ficus trees rooted along a three-block stretch of Whittier’s commercial center was sealed. City Council members in December voted to approve a redesign of the ...

The city of Beverly Hills is in the process of cutting down scores of ficus trees to make room for a sidewalk project. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Wendy Klenk never considered herself a ...

Severe pruning — a.k.a. “coat racking” — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse. Evergreen trees like the ficus that were heavily pruned outside ...

After planting trees other than the iconic ficus on Tempe’s Mill Avenue, the city is returning to its roots. Tempe will replace dying ficus trees with more of the same because of the reaction to an ...

The decision to save a little more than a third of the ficus trees in a one-block area on Greenleaf Avenue in the Uptown area already is under attack. Two factions are frustrated with City Council’s ...

SEAL BEACH – Ficus or no ficus? The City Council voted at its last meeting to plant 25 new ficus trees on Main Street, replacing older trees that are not ficus. The goal is to create a uniform canopy ...

It could cost $1.2 million over the next five years to prune all of downtown’s huge ficus street trees and repair root-caused cracks in the city’s sidewalks, a new report states. That hefty price tag ...

Christopher Campbell Tree Design and West Coast Arborists begin the historic trimming of 38 ficus trees and the culling of 33 that many see as a part of 24th Street’s cultural heritage. A worker ...