Description
A tree to plant as a family, to pick your own figs!
The ‘Brown Turkey’ fig tree is the gift for food lovers: a living tree, hardy and generous, that bears its first figs generally within two years of planting. A reward to share, young and old alike.
Big leaves, then sweet figs
The ‘Brown Turkey’ fig tree (Ficus carica ‘Brown Turkey’) is a hardy, generous fig tree with a bushy, spreading habit. Its large lobed leaves, shaped like a hand, give way, from summer to autumn, to brown figs with thin skin and melting, very sweet flesh. It is self-fertile: a single tree is enough to harvest. It needs full sun, sheltered from cold winds, and withstands cold down to -15 °C.
Plant, water, wait for the first figs
Digging the hole, setting the young tree, watering it, spreading the mulch: every step is easy to share with children, who discover how a fruit tree grows. It is then up to them to keep up the watering in dry summers, measure its height each season, watch for the first fruit and, one day, pick and taste it. A young gardener in charge of their own tree, rewarded with their own figs.
It arrives with:
- A ‘Brown Turkey’ fig tree in a 9 cm nursery pot, about 80 cm tall including the pot
- A care leaflet so you know what to do at each stage
- An optional message card to go with your gift
Good to know:
- Light: full sun, sheltered from cold winds
- Soil: neutral, moist to dry, well-drained
- Hardiness: down to -15 °C
- Adult size: 3 to 5 m tall in the ground, lower in a pot
- Fruit: brown figs with melting flesh, from summer to autumn
- First figs: generally within two years of planting
- In a pot: possible on a sunny terrace or balcony
- Planting: all year round, except in hard frost or heatwaves, spring and autumn being the most favourable times
A gift for:
- Marking a housewarming with a fruit tree for the garden or terrace
- Celebrating a birthday with a gift that is good to eat and lasts
- Celebrating a wedding with a tree that gives summer fruit year after year
Delivered on the date of your choice, in a box suited to transport, so the adventure begins as soon as it arrives.
