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 ...

Wendy Klenk never considered herself a political person. But when she witnessed a towering and healthy ficus tree being cut down in Beverly Hills last week, something fired up within her. “I’ve never ...

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 ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (KABC) -- There's a battle brewing in Beverly Hills over some of its majestic ficus trees. The city is cutting down nearly 90 trees as part of a sidewalk project. Officials said ...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — Strong storms that blew through parts of southern Palm Beach County brought down a decades-old tree. WPTV viewer Dishune Moore sent us pictures of a large ficus tree that fell in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Residents are fighting back after city ...

In some parts of Santa Monica, the preferred obscenity is "Oh, fig!" We are cursed with aging ficus trees that City Hall refuses to remove. Note that a ficus is basically a fig tree. Each tree ...

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 ...

Susan Cervantes, founder of Precita Eyes Muralists, sits on one of the ficus stumps she saved in 2021. Susan Cervantes has made a new home for two of the 126 ficuses that once lined 24th Street. As of ...