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Plant of the Week
This was one of the first plants I learned about in Mike Lee’s ‘Plants for the Northwest’ class back in the early 80’s. Besides being the true culinary bay (not to be confused with Umbellularia) and that it was evergreen and hardy for Puget Sound, I thought it was kind of cool that I had been used extensively in plantings around the base of the Federal Building in downtown Seattle.
Top Gardening Tip
Along with a variety of fruits and vegetables, figs had been grown fairly extensively in the hey day of Vashon’s agricultural history. The variety we have here, although as yet unnamed, comes from a plant that has fruited in an Island garden for over fifty years. It is a brown-fruited variety and very prolific.
This was one of the first plants I learned about in Mike Lee’s ‘Plants for the Northwest’ class back in the early 80’s. Besides being the true culinary bay (not to be confused with Umbellularia) and that it was evergreen and hardy for Puget Sound, I thought it was kind of cool that I had been used extensively in plantings around the base of the Federal Building in downtown Seattle.Along with a variety of fruits and vegetables, figs had been grown fairly extensively in the hey day of Vashon’s agricultural history. The variety we have here, although as yet unnamed, comes from a plant that has fruited in an Island garden for over fifty years. It is a brown-fruited variety and very prolific.
