The new tree is in the ground and growing!  I've been very busy this past month; I decided to create a garden for the fig tree.  Here are some pictures.

Looks great JoAnn! Very nice looking fig tree. What variety is it?  I am sure it will be very happy with the garden you planted.  Keep the pics coming...

The tree is a Celeste.  Originally I had a flowerbed by the meter - very narrow and one under the window.  I was going to expand each of them. My partner suggested combining them and this is the result. 

I should've made it bigger!

JoAnn....

Nice tree!  Is that a near-ripe,  fig growing near the top?  I can't wait for this growing season to start, in Zone 7b, Bronx, NYC.  Today the weather was dreary, and not really too warm at all, but my primal instincts told me to go out and check all the terminal buds on my fig trees to see if they were any bigger than they were yesterday.  My neighbors, I'm sure, must think that I am prone to psychotic episodes when they see me constantly checking "dead" trees....but, I know better. : )

You should have made it bigger!  That lone tree needs some companions.

Enjoy your new garden, and may your new fig tree grow to give you it's bounty.

Happy Easter!

Frank

Well somebody has been working their tail off. I remember the earlier pictures of your Celeste. It sure did leaf out nicely for you. Looks very nice in the garden you have provided.

Thanks everyone! 
Navillus, Yes - I have been working my tail off every weekend and during the week before I go to work (well, most days:) )  Someone stated it looked like there wasn't enough room for a fig tree in the previous pictures I posted.    The tree gets full sun from 8am or so (I'm still in bed since I work nights) until 3ish, so I think it will be a good spot.  It would be a better spot if my neighbors cut down the ugly post oak tree they don't take care of.

Frank, the "near ripe fig", I think it was a breba because it was very hard and fell off when I touched it.  This is the first fig tree I've been near in over 20 years so I am a bit rusty about them lol.  As for companions, my Mom and brother are going to send me a few suckers from the "family tree" that has been there for 80 or more years.  I was talking to my brother about it a few days ago and he said it is no longer in a "tree" shape but in the vase style with multiple trunks and kept to 8-10 ft.  They are on Long Island and I moved to DFW TX about 19 years ago. 

For now the companions are an assortment of tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, green beans, azaleas, marigolds, roses, daylillies, marigolds, peony, herbs, petunias, plus more.  And me of course!!


Thankfully my home was not in the area where the bad storms were - my prayers are with all of those who experienced it and suffered damage.

Jo-Ann

Nice looking beds and tree. I have done something similar in my backyard, kind of a permaculture mix of plants. So far, so good.

John

NC Zone 8a/8b

JoAnn thanks for showing your pictures.
I enjoy seeing what others do.
Please keep posting them .
Thanks.