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 ...

The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council has smacked down Trump National Golf Club’s second bid in four years to erect a “privacy hedge” of ficus trees between its driving range and neighboring ...

Lindsay recalled that the ficus was the “hedge du jour” for decades, but controlling the infestation of whiteflies, which had grown in recent years, required heavy-duty pesticides.

To create a hedge, each ficus must be planted 2 to 3 feet apart, close enough to build a screen but far enough for the trees to grow. Because the root system spreads widely, garden experts ...

The average 24-foot ficus hedge costs $300 per tree. Ms. Benner estimates that her clients spend around $15,000 on the hedges that come with their landscape design; on larger properties, the cost ...

Imagine you’re a ficus whitefly. You’re buzzing around South Florida neighborhoods, working up an appetite. Pretty soon, you come across a scrumptious looking, 100-foot ficus hedge. Loo… ...

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The Kansas City, Mo.-based company manufactures Atrimmec, which can also be sprayed on trees, hedges, shrubs and groundcover. The city tried spraying the product onto trees, but that method was ...

RPV – Where there once stood a wall of 8- to 10-foot-tall ficus trees on the Trump National Golf Club driving range, there is now merely grass. Rancho Palos Verdes residents are relieved to ...

The Ficus Nitida. In conversation with gardening expert Tony O'Neill, he tells us that ficus nitida hedges are trendy screen fences because of their dense foliage, fast growth rate, and ability to ...

As Ficus benjamina may no longer be planted in Palm Beach, landscapers are now often recommending the clusia species, which many insist are native.. The autograph tree (Clusia rosea) is indeed a ...