In a bid to strike back at the whitefly pest, the town is poised to ban all new plantings of Ficus benjamina. Ficus benjamina, also known as weeping fig, has been a mainstay for decades in Palm Beach, ...

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There was time when one of the hallmarks of Palm Beach was thick hedges of ficus benjamina towering above the sidewalks to provide privacy for the homes beyond them. But times are changing. This past ...

Everybody seems to hate ficus hedges, and yet most of us have them. They make a fast-growing privacy screen – after all, they are frustrated ficus benjamina trees. And they keep growing if you don’t ...

More than 1,600 mature street trees in Long Beach and tens of thousands throughout Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speed and threatens to ...