Hi all! Hope that your fig trees are doing well this late spring season. For those of you that have inground trees in zone 6 and 7, please post pictures of them. Would be great to see how fellow figs are coming along. Here are my two ... The left is s Celeste and the right is a Spanish Mission. The tiny one in the container in the middle is a Kadota, and keeping it as a container tree because it requires a long growing season to ripen although I don't expect any figs from it this year. Kadotas are such sweet tasting figs, but they just don't do well inground in zone 6 unfortunately.

Those are beautiful trees. Hope you get lots of figs.

j have i lot of IN GROUND fig trees but i am in Zone 9b

Your trees look happy. Looks like you picked the right varieties for in ground.

Beautiful in ground Trees! Congrats!

They look great. Are these the ones with heat lamps on them this past winter during that cold spell?

I've got 25 varieties (mostly unknowns I've collected) that are scattered around the perimeter of the garden. They are mostly still in pots until I have the time to plant them. I'll post pics later. FYI I stopped by a carpet place and asked if they had extra carpet padding (to wrap and winterize the figs). The guy told me to take whatever I wanted. Well I'll be seeing them in the fall. All you northerners like me, can't go wrong with free stuff!

Hey, northern growers!

Here's an in-ground Chicago Hardy, zone 6A, OH. This is its 2nd season of growth since it survived its first winter with very little die-back. I believe it got down to -4F, but didn't stay below 0F for more than a week. It was wrapped up with an agricultural-grade white, winter blanket. It has quite a few shoots with figlets coming in, about the size of a pea. The caliper on this tree was probably no more than 1.0" or 0.875", and it was planted up against an eastern-facing wall (30 ft. tall) that gets excellent morning and afternoon sun. It's probably about 4 or 5 ft tall. Next, I'd like to plant Sal's EL, Ronde de Bordeaux, and Marseilles Black VS in the same general location.

Thanks everyone. Had a mild winter and wrapped them as well.

In ground trees in zone 6 and growing fine many in 22nd year. 
Here are some pics of;
(Ciccio Fico Nero(aka Ciccio Nero), Dalmatie Pino, Fico Bianco, Bolzano Nero, Desert King);

These are the only 2 I have in ground. Salem dark and a Malta black. Both planted about two years ago and have grown back from the ground each year. Not much to look at just yet. Haha

The only photos that I've got from yesterday. I can see small buds but I don't know if they are new shoots or figs. I wish for us very hot and dry summer. 

Hi,
A bit of sun from a Zone7. This is healthy longue d'aout.
First time getting the brebas. The tree is in her third leaf by me.
 

Here are my plants zone 6B:

Nice pictures everyone.

I suspect that it's an uphill battle every winter in your zone, when the freeze keeps trimming the trees. But frankly I'm surprised that I do not see any thick or large trunks despite the fact that some trees are many years old and in ground.

pino and herman2, your trees look great! Where abouts are you? North Central Jersey is Zone 6b. I bought these two at a local garden center last spring and 3 gallon pots. The Kadota didn't fare so well so I put in a pot and will overwinter inside because I think I need a longer growing season and doesn't do well covered up. You both have a lot of trees and it must've taken a lot of time to cover them for the winter!

I would love one more tree of the same size to put in ground that is called Hardy, but all of the ones I can find at the garden centers are small or tall and lanky and very expensive because they are in larger pots even though they look like hell.

No figs as of yet. I am hoping they will start producing soon.

The large tree on the left is a peach tree. My grandfather planTed it seven years ago and grew it from a seed. It was about a foot tall. It fell over aboutbseven or eight times from hurricane Irene and Sandy and some other storms, but I kept sticking it back up. Two years ago it took off and became extremely sturdy so that it didn't need to be staked any longer, and there were a lot of peaches but something took them all in the middle of the night and cleared out the tree before they were even ripe. Last year it produced hundreds of peaches and the birds started going at them so I netted it. Netting is seriously the only thing that works. The peaches were so excellent and worth the six year wait, LOL. Well worth it. This year it's a bit bigger and I'm sure it will be quite a challenge netting it again. I was a bit worried when we had that cold snap in early April but luckily there's quite a bit of peaches on the tree although I'm not sure if there are as many as last year. My grandpa finally got to taste a few last year right before he passed. Now, I can't ever give up on the tree.

I am in Willingboro NJ

Sas:Winter 2014 and 15,were brutally cold and killed most trees to ground or very close to,on East coast,it did not matter how old or how thick the plants were.

So what you see is new trunks started in Spring 2015.!

That's great. Huge fig tree in ground (Zone 6) That sounds very good for me. :)
I am back in home so I can show some of my fig tree. Figs grow in cold and cloudy climate of Central Europe. 

Michurinska-10 (One branch survived my winter without any protection) 

Panache

 

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Herman, Pino, Thank You for clarifying this.

Found this article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/nyregion/a-fig-tree-dies-in-brooklyn-and-in-other-boroughs.html?_r=0

When I was in Brooklyn NY years ago, which is zone 6b, I remember some large fig trees. One of them was at a neighbors place. I'm wondering if it was the variety that made the tree get large or perhaps the microclimate, provided by the surrounding structures. I'm not even sure if they protected the tree during the winter months or not.
It produced enough figs for them to share some with everyone around.

these are my in ground all rotted back to the ground this past winter i packed them in barrels with wood chips they rotted nect year just a cover and they will breath i would rather them freeze than rot like that,~ white bronx