Thrillseekers,

I'm a little disappointed in myself for not discovering this place sooner, but I've been enjoying lurking for the past week or two! I'm also lucky enough to be not too far from the Encanto Nursery, so I can't wait to make a trip down there in the coming weeks.

Tried my first fresh fig about 6 years ago while visiting my family on the coast of the Abruzzo region of Italy. Just about knocked me over! Have yet to have a fig as delicious as those, and unfortunately don't know the variety.

Haven't been growing figs for too long. Just have some of the standards: black mission, brown turkey, violette de bordeaux, and panache, but I'm very excited to start collecting some more. I'm all about heirloom vegetable gardening, so I can't wait to try and get my hands on some other heirloom fig varieties!

It is never too late. Welcome and enjoy

Happy to have another member from paradise.

Welcome Buttercream, Hope to see you at our next get together.....

welcome, butter. you'll have fun here. you can learn lots.

Welcome from Los Angeles!! 
A great way to start a new year!

welcome. 

Welcome from up the road. A bit too dry, but nice weather we've been having. :)

Welcome to the F4F forum from snowy Pennsylvania

Lot of very good, helpful members here!

As we say in Fallbrook, welcome!

"Thrillseekers" Indeed! Haha I love it!

Welcome ButterCream,
I know you're enjoying this "Summertime" Winter we're having in Sunny Southern California!
Tell us more about your Family in Abruzzo :)
Happy Figging,

Hey Buttercream, you have now arrived! Congrats and welcome;)

From just up the street........ Welcome to forum neighbor

My sunscreen usage over the past few weeks has certainly been a bit of an inconvenience, but sometimes we have to take one for the team. On the bright side, it's been fantastic for prepping a new wildflower garden (no, my whole yard isn't figs...yet).

dcfromsocal - As for my family, I went back and looked through some pictures. I unfortunately didn't take any pictures of the tree while I was there in summer. But, I do have an intersting shot when I was there in winter. This is on the family farm (used to be actively worked, but now just a grannie flat). That's the Adriatic in the background. I had never seen a fig tree before, so I found the gnarled branches really unique.

 

Welcome

Welcome to the fig house!  I definitely have zone envy.  :)

Welcome to the forum.  Do you need a caretaker for the "Granny Flat"?, I can be there tomorrow, LOL

Welcome here to F4F.

>>> That's the Adriatic in the background.
The Adriatic fig is a very good fig; specially if it is an heirloom.

Does it show signs of FigMosiacVirus (FMV)?
The one from UCDavis suffers a lot from it.

Welcome to the forum, and that's a nice spot for a farm. 
Gorgi, I think he/she meant the Adriatic Sea (not the variety) :-)

Welcome to the forum from fig paradise in NorCal! :)

Yes, sorry, I did mean the Adriatic Sea. The house is on the east coast of Italy.

dkirtexas - Ha, I think there is a line in the family already!