One of the best of many excellent varieties to come out of the LSU fig breeding program, LSU Purple is very prolific producing large breba and main crops of sweet, caramel-flavored figs. LSU Purple is very adaptable to many climate types, thriving in the Southeast as well as the Pacific Northwest and warmer climates. The small, closed eye makes it resistant to spoiling and is very adaptable to container culture.
Celeste Fig is so sweet it is known as the “sugar fig”. Its incredible cold and heat tolerance as well as its compact form and amazing taste have made it a long time favorite for the Southeastern United States. Celeste has light brown to violet skin with a bright strawberry red flesh.
This is one of the most prolific figs to grow in cold areas of the northern U.S.. The fall fruits are born on the new canes that grow during the summer, a plant with four new stem growths can produce up to 150 purplish brown figs. The figs are of excellent flavor.
Olympian Hardy Fig Tree produces two crops of green and purple striped fruit with sweet, violet flesh that is excellent for fresh eating, canning or drying. It is an incredibly cold hardy fig, reportedly down to zone 6, and reliably produces two crops, even in cool coastal conditions.
Growing only 4-6 feet in height, the Petite Negra Fig (Little Black Fig), is the perfect fruit tree for your patio or sunny living room. Producing medium sized fruit with a black skin and deep red, juicy sweet flesh, twice a year make this a must own for fig lovers.
Also referred to as the Osborne Prolific, the Neverella Fig Tree does very well in cool coastal climates. Neverella has brown skin with an opalescent flesh. It is delicious eaten fresh, canned, or preserved. This medium sized fig is another great option for container gardening and can even handle some shade.
Grown for many years in Oregon, this reliable and productive variety bears abundant crops of dark mahogany colored fruit. The very sweet, juicy, and firm fruit is great for fresh eating, preserves, and drying. A naturally dwarf tree, Black Spanish is well suited for container culture and can bear two crops a year.
One of the best varieties for the Northwest, Desert King is very productive and reliable, producing abundant, yellowish-green figs with sweet and richly flavorful, strawberry colored flesh. Because it ripens in mid summer, Desert King is a great variety for gardeners in coastal, high elevation, and other cool regions. Desert King also withstands fruit damaging late spring frosts better than any other variety we grow. We sometimes call this fig the Dessert King!!
Also known as Italian Honey Fig, this reliable and hardy variety has been producing delicious figs for many years in the Pacific Northwest. Lattarulla bears good crops of large, greenish yellow fruit with sweet, light amber flesh. Lattarulla can bear two crops in one season, one ripening in late July and the second in mid-September.
A naturally small tree, Negronne bears striking, almost black fruit, with tasty, sweet, dark red flesh. Negronne is well suited for container culture or confined spaces.
