Frosted Figs

Philadelphia lies at the northern limit of viability for fig trees. They usually do fine in the city, but not in the suburbs, given the several degrees we increase because of all the concrete and such.

Last winter there was a hard frost that killed all our fig trees to the roots, but new leaves are springing from the bases (or from thick trunks) of most of them.

Here is my heroic sapling, making its comeback with dead limbs cut away. I transferred it from nearby last September.