In a bid to strike back at the whitefly pest, the town is poised to ban all new plantings of Ficus benjamina. Ficus benjamina, also known as weeping fig, has been a mainstay for decades in Palm Beach, ...

With so much construction going on throughout South Florida and Palm Beach, new hedges are inevitably being planted everywhere. Ficus (Ficus benjamina) has been banned due to the whitefly infestation ...

I read the letter regarding the Benjamina tree that is growing too fast — the Letter to the Editor dated Sept. 5, 2012.

There was time when one of the hallmarks of Palm Beach was thick hedges of ficus benjamina towering above the sidewalks to provide privacy for the homes beyond them. But times are changing. This past ...

If naturalists can’t convince you, maybe nature can. Some types of towering trees can mean trouble in landscaping and tragedy in a hurricane. Falling trees during Hurricane Katrina’s initial blasts ...