These indoor trees can double as a statement-making interior design element. Ficus trees, also known as fig trees, are popularly grown as houseplants to add height and make a simple yet impactful ...

The city of Beverly Hills is in the process of cutting down scores of ficus trees to make room for a sidewalk project. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Wendy Klenk never considered herself a ...

All the ficus trees on a three-block stretch of Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier will be ripped out to make way for the construction of a promenade under a city-approved plan. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles ...

Tree advocates in Beverly Hills, Calif., have won a reprieve for dozens of Indian laurel figs that were slated to be razed by the city after arguing in court, in part, that the mature trees provided ...

Beverly Hills has just cut down many ficus macrocarpa, also known as Indian laurel fig, trees, and a total of 87 more there are scheduled for destruction. Our own city of Whittier has cut down healthy ...

"I'm shocked at how beautiful this tree is." ...

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have filed a lawsuit against the city and asked for financial support from other supporters during the City Council meeting. Ficus fans filed the lawsuit July 8 to prevent the city from following ...

Susan Cervantes, founder of Precita Eyes Muralists, sits on one of the ficus stumps she saved in 2021. Susan Cervantes has made a new home for two of the 126 ficuses that once lined 24th Street. As of ...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — Strong storms that blew through parts of southern Palm Beach County brought down a decades-old tree. WPTV viewer Dishune Moore sent us pictures of a large ficus tree that fell in ...

In some parts of Santa Monica, the preferred obscenity is "Oh, fig!" We are cursed with aging ficus trees that City Hall refuses to remove. Note that a ficus is basically a fig tree. Each tree ...

Wendy Klenk never considered herself a political person. But when she witnessed a towering and healthy ficus tree being cut down in Beverly Hills last week, something fired up within her. “I’ve never ...