Ficus carica 'Celeste' David Geiger and beloved by early bees

and beloved by early bees

excellent as an evergreen screen

a winter home built in the 1930s in the exclusive Mountain Lake development at Lake Wales

Diospyros virginiana

firebush sits in the Rubiaceae

Ficus carica 'Celeste' David Geiger and beloved by early beesFew fruits carry the weight of centuries quite like the common fig. Ficus carica, native to the sun soaked hills of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, has graced gardens and tables since biblical times, and no member of the tribe is more beloved in the American South than 'Celeste', the little fig so sweet that growers have long called the tree the Sugar Fig. This particular lineage of Ficus carica 'Celeste' comes to us through a story as rich as