Greetings from Germany! :-)

I'm relatively new to the subject. I came to figs while planning my "hardy exots corner" in our garden. I saw that at a botanical garden and wanted that for me, too - my personal happy place, if you like ^^ With big hardy bamboo, big ferns, Magnolia officinalis, Kiwis, Kiwais, Passionflowers, Paw Paw and other "jungel-stuff" like that.

Althoug I'm new to figs, I cultivated many other plants since my childhood. Today mainly hardy carnivores, cactus' & succulents and hardy & exotic fruit-bearing plants.

I have no fully grown Fig tree by now, only some cuttings with roots and leaves. They will attend the next 2 winters potted in the garage.
To this point, I own  RdB, Olympian and one unknown variant from Sizilien (from a friend's father, who is Sizilian). My first tries with planting figs outside in my garden were a dead end because of the winter. But I will try again, until that will work out well :-)
The 'Olympian' is my latest hope to succeed in that project.

I'm a member of a very active (mostly german) facebook group about figs and came crabwise to this great forum! :-)

Please excuse my rather bad school-english! (It may happen that I use german names/expressions if I don't know the right english vocab ;-S)

Regards,
Kai

P.S. my climate zone is 7

Welcome to the forum, Kai.  Your english is excellent and well understood.  Good luck with all of your trees.

Welcome Kai!

This is a great place for wealth of knowledge, especially for people like us who are just starting out. Good luck on future projects and look forward to seeing some of your garden as it expands.

Hi Figfan,
Welcome to the forum.
What were your lower temperatures ?
You could keep the trees potted and bury the pots at spring time for the roots to expand out of the pot. And take them out of the dirt and back in the garage during the winter.

Welcome to the forum Kai. Though your English may not be perfect, you convey perfectly.

A (very late) THANK YOU for your warm welcome! :-D

Greetings Kai, I am also new to figs and this forum. Hope you find it as helpful as i have. I have two questions: What town are you from and can you post a link to the facebook page for german figs? Cheers! Johnny

Welcome!  You have access to some great figs in the EU so you might want to start looking at a few acres under glass.

We happen to have 2 smaller Greenhouses, a medium vegetable Garden and a big orchard (where I plan to plant out ~12 of my collected varieties next june (with some kind of wind-protection and/or heat storage). My family furthermore owns some acres of farmland, which is let for (very small) rent to some farmers of our area to maintain its worth. (My grandfather was a part-time farmer, I can remember helping him reap the potatoes at one field with our whole family as helpers some decades ago - it always was a big happening with a big potato-fire and tinfoil-baked potatoes in it. :-)).

I planned to plant a medium to small sized burgundy truffles-plantation on one part of one field with some perigord-truffle inoculated trees (I believe in the climate change, so it will get warmer here).

Perhaps I will plant some figs as a hedge on the edge of one field soon, too, as I have the space. That would be easy and no big thing. :-)

But I don't want greenhouse-figs - my explicit hobbyhorse are ultra hardy figs outdoor-figs - just because they don't need greenhouses. :-)

Hm, how could I manage to save a profile pic? Tried it many times, but it just won't work :-/

Hello Kai,

Welcome to this forum

Francisco
Portugal

That's a spectacular setup, congratulations!  If you visit a tropical grower you might think differently.  Some of those tender, long season figs are unbelievably good.

Welcome to the forum.