I also have a ficus, which I have managed to keep alive since 1991. The tree has had several periods of living on the edge, so I'll share what I've learned. 1. Ficus can be trimmed into a manageable ...

Merchants and residents of the lower 24th Street corridor are under attack — from above and below. By ficus trees. Problematic ficus trees are increasingly becoming a headache for area denizens, with ...

Workers from San Francisco Public Works labored nearly 10 hours Wednesday to cut back a top-heavy ficus tree threatening the roof of McDonald’s at 24th and Mission streets. The work started at 6 a.m. ...

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 ...

A tree falls in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood, but the question is not whether it makes a sound. The question is what can be done to keep such trees from sending splayed branches into busy ...

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