I had been Visiting Bass's Trees of Joy site before I brought my first fig tree.
Between his site and this great forum my interest went from simple curiosity to outright obsession.
After Looking at all the pics and reading the information about so many different figs I went from not having a single tree to now having nearly three dozen
fig tree of all colors and nationalities on my roof.
Don't know at this point rather to thank them or blame them.
Since I am not able to get to the West Coast to visit Encanto Farms at this point, I figured let me check out Bass's garden.
And boy did I check him out.
Being only an hour away, I thought " What's the harm? "
I was so naive.
Not only did I visit Bass's garden. I went back two more times in the same week!
Adorable twins, beautiful friendly wife.
He has a great set-up.
Fruit plants galore, Banana trees, and of course more Fig trees then you can shake a stick at.
Fig tree after Fig tree as far as the eye can see.
Small ones here, Big ones there, Ones from so many different countries that I lost track.
I was like a kid in a candy store.
My head was spinning.
My first visit that lasted a hour felt like a minute.
Bought some great plants and headed home.
Two days later, there I was knocking on his door again.
That visit was longer but still zoomed right by.
Brought a few more fig trees and headed home...
Two more days later there I was back at Bass for more trees I might have " missed."
I could have sworn I saw him hiding behind a curtain in the window that visit.
In total I brought 22 Figs trees.
I will be posting some pictures soon.