A Quick Guide to Brooklyn’s Best and Most Beautiful Trees
- Evan Sung, New York Times
Fig Trees
Fig trees are as Brooklyn as, uh, pizza or something. As Melissa Clark, Brooklynite and fig-tree grower, noted in the Times last year: “Planting the tree was my Italian-American mother-in-law’s idea. When I moved into the brownstone in 1997, she regaled me with stories of fig trees all over Brooklyn. Potted fig trees thriving on patios in Park Slope. Fig trees tucked in postage-stamp yards in Dyker Heights. Fig trees spreading out regally in gardens in Bay Ridge. They were especially abundant in Carroll Gardens, where everyone with a spare foot of soil grew a lush tree that bore enough fruit to share with friends and relatives.” True: I live in Bay Ridge, and I have a fig tree in my backyard that yields a bumper crop every summer, despite the heavy losses suffered to bugs and birds. [photo]
