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Posted by shelleyvw SA Aust (My Page) on Thu, Apr 13, 06 at 21:48
| A lovely woman I met at a gardening club who has been an avid gardener for many many years gave me a small fig tree to plant on a bank in my garden. A couple of people have since told me that I could have problems with invasive roots from it. Where I planted it , it is at least 10 metres from the house and lower than the house down a bank. About 8 metres from our concrete inground pool.
Any advice about problems I could face would be gratefully received. I dont know what variety of fig it is.
Shelley |
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RE: Fig Tree
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| Shelly The only places I would plant figs are in pots or in the middle of a paddock. They make great shade trees but the roots are very invasive. |
RE: Fig Tree
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- Posted by meggs WA Aust (My Page) on
Sat, Apr 15, 06 at 6:11
| Sorry Shelley, my adice would be to take it out immediately. You will have problems in not so far away future. I gave a friend a little tree in a pot with a note NEVER TO PUT IT IN THE GRADEN. However she did not listen, she planted it about 15 m away from the house, it grew beautifully and after 3 years blocked all her drains. It came out but the cost....!!!! We have a 15m fig in the neighbourhood, it cracks the road and the house on the other side of the road, yes, it took 20 years to do it but ... :-(((. |
RE: Fig Tree
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| Thanks Sunshine and Meggs. You both have convinced me and I have put it back in a pot and that is where it will stay. They are beautiful trees but I dont need the hassle with the roots. Shelley |
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