You have to be on the watch, Dennis. They look cozy for the figs but possibly rodents may find them very cozy too.

Dennis..   WOW! Excellent idea.

 All, that I did was Chicken wire cages and filled with leaves and pine needles.

Your method looks safer. Thanks for the information.  Fredfig

I don't have a rodent problem in my orchard yet.  We have several hawks and plenty of cats that stroll through my orchard daily. Every day, I go out in my orchard and tap on the jacket to see if it moves.  Plus I'll take my dog with me.  He will tell me if something is inside or not.  He's suppose to be my squirrel chaser.  He's a Maltapoo and only around 8 months old.

That is some serious fig devotion, I'm impressed! Maybe you should figure a way to patent your design and make a little money selling them.

Sorry for being "tardy to the party on my own post"....I got kinda carried away on other things...now to respond to some comments.
@ Alan, hey Alan it got down to 19 degrees in Charlotte that day!   I was worried.   So, I snuck 9 of my LSU trees in my basement.  They were outside tucked down in the corner of my 5 foot wall completely out of the wind.   I was worried they might not survive that temp.  Two days later, I toted them back outside.  But I love our weather!  We have four complete months of seasonal weather.  The scarry time comes in Spring every year when  we get another freeze around Easter. 

@GoodDaughter, I did think of a "ShrubCoat" since ShrubJacket was already patented.  But seeing them at Tuesday Morning stores made me think that maybe there isn't a market for these.  I guess I could try making a few with my design and submitting a patent.  I guess I need to pray about this and see what God says.  :)   For those who don't know, Tuesday Morning is a first stage close out store.  I love shopping there. 

@Cathy, wind is not a problem for me.  I think if you stuff the jacket snug with leaves you won't have any problems.  Over a few days the leaves will settle down and you will have to go back and add more leaves.  Also, if the tree is tall like my Negronne, you may have to tie it down.  If you zoom in on the last picture, you can see that I did tie that tree down.  It was leaning very badly due to the height of the bag on top.  I didn't want the tree to break and I know it could.  Cathy, be careful using solid structures, you don't want to induce too much moisture or you will have a lot of mold on your hands.  I chose these jackets because they are decoratve and breatheable.  My other option was to use chicken wire and leaves but I did not want the leaves to blow away or get too wet from the rain.

Three jackets comes in a pack at $12.99 for small, $14.99 for medium and $17.99 for Large.  They make a custom size for trees 7 feet....you only 2 in a pack and they are $7.99 a pack.  I don't have any custom jackets.   My goal is to keep my trees at 5 feet a year.  I have over 60 trees in my orchard.  Most are under 4 foot tall and are over 2years old but still quite small. But I did double my purchase buying 10 extra packs of the large size.  I  started buying these in August 2011.  Some stores did not have the sizes I wanted.  We have over 6 TM stores in a 25 mile radius.  So over the last 6 months, I drove around to each to get the sizes I wanted.  Cheers!

great sense of humore there Strive