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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> Hardy Chicago fig at the Chicago Botanic garden (zone 6 I think) is planted 
> at the base of an east facing wall with no protection dies back to the ground 
> most if not all winters. It sets a lot of fruit. The person in charge of the 
> fruit and vegetable island said that it never ripens, though garden 
> volumteers saw figs and assumed that they ripenend and told me that they did. 
>  It might be possible to get it to ripen in just the right microsite, but I 
> suspect that this variety needs to be protected in Chicago.  It is certainly 
> not a no care easy fig in zone 5.
>   


Thanks for the info.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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