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Fig Tree's in Park

These fig trees are growing in my neighborhood park.  They were probably planted back in the late 60's early 70's when the park was built.  I am pretty sure they are all Celeste.  Each one is around 20ft tall and there are some in full sun and others in part shade.

If you notice the two in full sun are dropping leaves and looking pretty rough.  But they have tons of figs left on them to ripen up.  This will be their second crop of figs this summer. 

The other two are in part shade and are closer to the pond so I'm sure they get more water.  They look much better with only a few yellow leaves.  But they don't have any figs on them and when they do produce its a much smaller crop than the other two have. 

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Figs normally require a fair amount of sun to set fruit. Being in shade will reduce the yield or eliminate the crop entirely in some instances. 

I thought they were good examples since there has been a lot of talk about tree's yellowing and dropping leaves.  These do every year, but every year they come back beautifully and have a huge crop of figs. 

Wow, so many fig trees near me that I've never seen.  The first one is huge in diameter!

Danny K made me believe that there are a lot of trees near me (and I'm sure there are) I just need to start looking in older neighborhoods.

I feel the same here in NE Texas, Steve.  There are bound to be figs here, I'm just not looking in the right places.  

Steve, these are all pretty good size.  The smallest was probably that first picture.  And just down the street from this park there is a fig tree that stands a good 10 ft above a wood privacy fence.  A lot of nice old fig tree's in this area. 

Jules, you will probably be driving home one day and look over and spot a large fig tree that you had just simply missed before. 

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