So I was thinking that I have about 12 varieties of figs and if I put one of each in the ground around our home that would be a lot of the same type of plant.

Does anyone have a lot of figs trees planted amount their home?

Does it look nice ?

Pictures?...

Thanks in advance

Look at this.......

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/just-a-few-trees-6532395?pid=1279585372#post1279585372

Just a few....

Fig trees have nice foliage I have seen a few houses with small forests of figs, but I don't think I've seen 12 figs at one house! I say go for it: in ground figs will give the best flavor in time.

Got 66 in the ground on southwest side of property.

I am aiming for 12-15 in the ground around my home, on a 1/2 lot. I will keep the trees on the small size, no more than 8-10 ft tall.

combined with Pine or Date trees they will look awesome, they are Architectural plants, they will add quality looks to your property. think of all those Mediterranean, Spanish house designs... they all have Fig/Date/Palm and Kolokasia plants all around them

I'm always building on this.  But I've been doing an edible landscaping idea in the backyard.  Currently I have 10 fig trees in ground in the backyard with plans to add more.  Add in a couple of peach trees, a plum, two baby pecan trees, blueberries and blackberries.  This is a picture from last summer. 

I did the same thing as Meghan along my entire back fence at my old house. I only had 2 plants in the back yard that were not edible and they were palm trees. I had the far corner as 16ft long by 4wide vegetable bed. Then in random orders were 7 citrus, trellised black berry and muscadine grapes all in one continuous raised bed. One of the side yards was busting at the seems with 50 something blueberries and had big plans for the other side yard. It was going to be figs and peaches. Then for some reason she convinced me to sell the house and now I get to start all over. My goal was to be able to walk out in the back yard with my boys and be able to eat something every day of the year. I was well on my way! I like the look of fig trees but for my taste I think one should have an assortment of fruit trees in the back yard. Its like eye candy for me. I like figs, but there are other home grown fruits that are hard to beat!  

Work them in where ever they fit! I use edibles all over in place of more standard landscape plants. Anything looks better than a crappy Dwarf Alberta Spruce or Yew Bush.

My front border is all blueberry bushes (better fall color than burning bush) and more to plant. To the right of my front door is a lovely little miniature peach tree. This spring I'm ripping out a viburnum to the left of my front door to replace with 1-3 figs, haven't decided how many I should pile in.

Besides, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...nothing prettier than a load of ripening fruit.

Amen to that Kelby!  Do the blueberry bushes do well for you over there?  Do you have to do a lot to your native soil to amend it or is it acidic enough?

One inground to experiment rest in containers.
Here in this climate its too much work to have them inground.

I think this depends on the size of your property.  Figs have serious roots, so best not to plant them as street trees or near your slab. 

We have one in the front yard (JD only wants evergreen in view of the street), and the rest (16) are scattered here and there down our slope where they co-mingle with many other fruit and landscape trees.  We have at least 6 more to plant and a few cuttings trying to root.

Suzi

Pete,

What is the gigantic one in the blue pot?

that's Paradiso Gene. i topped it couple of yrs ago to limit the growth. 

That tree is impressive, brother.

that's just tall.. check out this baby.  VdB going on 5th yr. 

 

proper pruning of both top and root can keep it going for awhile. not that i know how to do neither of them. but tried my best. making back up of the tree every few yrs in case it's going to die on me. 

I have just under an acre
When finished selecting I will have in-ground:

12 (+/-) different  figs
2 different pear (may graft to get other varieties)
2 different peach (may graft to get other varieties)
6 different blueberry
3 different strawberry
2 different persimmon (may graft to get other varieties)
2 different pecan
2 pomegranate

"that's Paradiso Gene. i topped it couple of yrs ago to limit the growth. "

I noticed the knobby trunk on another mature Paradiso-Gene.  I didn't think much about it but yours has it too, Pete.  It seems to be a distinctive feature of this variety.

steve,

i'm not sure if it's Paradiso or Kathleen's Black, but one of them gets big nob on the node with what looks like aerial roots. it looks rather neat. 

10 year old Hardy Chicago inground as experiment which died down low and sprouted up last spring
gave several figs only. Airlayered spare for pot last year that was topped after it grew well.

One of the area's were figs are .