While at work here in San Diego, today I took a quick drive around what I now call The Point (Loma). Up the hill and overlooking the water, there are fruit trees and more fruit trees - citrus and figs. You will find fig trees in front of homes and in median where you can just walk up, sample, and take a cutting. There are also trees behind fenced, gated, and walled off front yards and back yards.

During my visit last month, I 'discovered' two new fig trees (NG#42 and NG#43) - just call me Columbus for kicks. Most of the branches in the NG photographs that follow are just over 6 feet, an arm's length, and tip toes tall, I could not reach them.

Today while taking snapshots of the valley and the water from The Point, my inner Columbus did it again. I 'found it' on Del Monte and nicknamed it "Dole".

JD

NG#43


NG#42


DOLE

Wow!  Great pics, JD.  cheers,

Dole is a gorgeous form.

Thanks for sharing JD.

Just imagine what I go through when I spot a fig tree and there's nowhere to park my big rig ( 72' to be exact ).
I eats me up.

I always wonder "if that person has the fig tree no one has". Or, I wonder what kind of fig tree it is?

I've seen them everywhere.

Glad you had a chance to stop and take pictures of them.

Sue V introduced me to the area (THANKS SUE!). It is close enough to the office to get lunch and take a eating drive through the neighborhood. The views are spectacular and the weather is...nice.

Rafed, I share your curiosity (and likely that of everyone else on the forum). I'll be back to talk to the owners, learn the story of the figs, sample, and take (hopefully) some cuttings if it is good and it is okay. Dole does not look like it has ever been pruned.

Another something to look forward to during the summer months. I hope I am still working the project...

JD

For something that has never been pruned, the form is absolutely magnificent.  I don't think I've ever seen a tree that was so perfectly spaced, so evenly distrubuted.... so perfect as what I see in that picture.  It's stark, sprawled within margin .... it's gorgeous.

If the figs taste has as amazing as it looks, I would be happy with that as my sole fig tree in the landscape.  It's that beautiful.

I'm sure the photog skills help though ;)

I was born in Ocean Beach [the western side of Point Loma], and was there over the holidays. I saw a few interesting fig trees on Sunset Cliffs Blvd...I was very tempted to gather some cuttings....maybe next time I will [asking first, of course].