rainbowgardener wrote:Fig trees are surprisingly hardy. I have two in pots that stay out all winter here in zone seven. We are milder than you , but we had a number of nights well down in the 20's. The tops die back, but they put out lots of new shoots from the bottom.
So true on the hardiness of fig trees. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, my part of the city took 4 1/2 feet of salt water that stayed around for almost 3 weeks before it was totally drained away and my fig tree survived. The ground in my yard was so saturated that I could not walk without sinking into the mud for at least another week or so after the water drained. How that fig tree survived is beyond me.
I also had a citrus tree, Japanese plum and Sweet Olive and all of them died and had to be removed.