Urban Life Needs To Be Tenacious

Tough Ficus carica Is A CAL-IPC Invasive Plant

This image reminds us that plants utilized in the urban setting really do need to be climate-adapted, tenacious beings. Notice how this edible fig, Ficus carica, is hanging out in the foundation crack under the hose bib and is showing the survival skills acquired over its more than six and a half millennia in cultivation. Where there is water, so too there will be life — no matter how inconvenient.

About Pamela Berstler

Thought-leader on the Watershed Approach to landscaping and the role gardens play in pushing back against climate change.