Here are questions I recently dealt with at the Springs Preserve. Question: What are the small, whitish and waxy pinhead-size bumps on our ficus tree leaves? Answer: They are waxy, glandular spots, ...

Everybody seems to hate ficus hedges, and yet most of us have them. They make a fast-growing privacy screen – after all, they are frustrated ficus benjamina trees. And they keep growing if you don’t ...