Maybe, possibly your Fig Tree is still alive

This winter was disastrously cold and one plant that is still showing signs of it are fig trees My neighbor has a huge fig tree that is taller than my (and his) 2 story house and it has JUST this week decided to attempt to leaf out. It will be interesting to see how much of it does leaf out.


Notice how sparse the leaves are so far. A couple here and there. I'm

wondering if the light colored branches are in fact dead as a door nail.

This morning my friend Rita emailed me telling me the status of  her two figs. Her fig trees are only 1 year old and therefore more twiggy than big like my neighbors tree.  One shows signs of leafing out and the other is still..... waiting.....  thinking.... maybe..... going to leaf out.

Walter Reeves was asked about figs being slow to leaf out this year in his column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution several weeks ago. His reply was - wait until the end of May to see if the figs really are going to come back or not. There was also a post about figs not leafing out on the Cobb County Extension Blog  Figs Slow to Leaf Out?  It has links to various publications and websites that talk about figs in Georgia and the southeast.

It will definitely be interesting to see what DOES happen with the figs this year. The next questions are - Is there even going to be any fruit if they do leaf out? And the 2nd question is -how much of the plant will leaf out?