Like many other fruit trees, fig trees need a huge amount of space to grow. Being confined to a small corner of your garden will ultimately affect the yield and the overall health of the tree, but ...
But it is no ordinary tree. The majestic fig tree, which is 100 years old and towers over a section of Waiyaki Way in the west of Nairobi, had been sentenced to death to make way for an expressway ...
Rather than a fig tree's blossoms being pollinated by bees—as happens with apples, for example—the fig fruit is an inverted flower. A small wasp crawls inside the fruit to pollinate it and ...