If you are among the many people who associate a fig tree with only a hot dry climate, you are in for a delicious surprise. Fig trees thrive in the Pacific Northwest and much of the nation. Most of the varieties we offer have been selected for cold hardiness and early ripening.
A warm location with a southern exposure is important for ripening fruit in a maritime climate. Mature plants are all hardy to about 10° F. Fig plants can be grown in colder climates if they are pruned as a bush and covered in winter or grown in a pot and brought inside in winter. We offer vigorous, well rooted plants.
Top rated in the Pacific Northwest. A large fig with dark green skin and pink flesh. It is the most consistent cropper in our region. It only produces one crop each year, in August, produced on the previous seasons growth, so don't cut more than half of that growth when pruning.
Most reliable in our region. The skin is mahogany in color and the flesh is a light amber and very sweet. The hardy tree will bear heavily and can have two crops of large delicious fruit a year.
A dwarf tree or bush that thrives in a pot and produces large crops of sweet flavorful black fruit with red flesh. It has two crops a year and sets more fruit for its size than other varieties. Its production outdoors in cool maritime summers is still unproven but grown in a pot, it can be brought inside to finish ripening.
The most popular fig, Mission is large, tear drop shaped with purple-black skin and rich flavored strawberry colored flesh. It is heavy bearing and long-lived. Grows well in California on the coast or inland and sets both an overwintering crop in early summer and a crop in the fall.
Most reliable in our region. The skin is mahogany in color and the flesh is a light amber and very sweet. The hardy tree will bear heavily and can have two crops of large delicious fruit a year.
From a garden near Chicago comes this excellent fig which, once established, can freeze to the ground and come back to produce a crop the same year! The fruit is medium to small, with dark brown skin and a sweet, rich flavor.
Top rated in the Pacific Northwest. A large fig with dark green skin and pink flesh. It is the most consistent cropper in our region. It only produces one crop each year, in August, produced on the previous seasons growth, so don't cut more than half of that growth when pruning.
Medium size, Yellow fruit with amber pulp. Sweet, rich flavor. Resistant to splitting even under adverse conditions. Superb, all purpose fig. Introduced in 1975. Considered very hardy.
Flanders is a highly productive, violet-striped fruit with white flecks that is resistant to splitting. Its richly-flavored amber flesh is considered among the most flavorful of all figs. It requires a hot summer climate, or a greenhouse to ripen and obtain its oustanding flavor.
Among the most popular and widely adapted varieties. It has amber colored flesh and a yellow-green skin. Its fine quality for canning, drying and fresh eating, has earned it the name Italian Honey Fig.
A medium sized purple-brown fig with amber pulp streaked with pink. It has a rich, sweet flavor. It is adapted to northern California and the Northwest where it produces an over wintering breba crop. Osborne's Prolific ripens with less summer heat than many cultivars. The trees are productive.
This light yellow, small to medium, pear-shaped fruit is adorned with unique dark green stripes. The flesh has strawberry colored and good, sweet flavor. Needs a long, warm growing season and ripens late.
Brought from Sicily, this fig is one of the best. The skin is a beautiful shiny yellow green when ripe, and the flesh is superb for fresh eating, drying and canning.
