Planting a fig

Thanks to Cyndi,
and all who responded warning me of trying to espalier a fig tree. It
looks so little and innocent as just a rooted cutting sticking there in
the ground with its five leaves (and five figs)!
I think to myself, "maybe I'll wait a year or two before taking it
out".   I'm not thinking of just ignoring it for 10 years, while it
starts to take over the world. There is a practice called "garden
bonsai" which maintains that one can dwarf a tree just by repeated
pruning to reduce the leaf structure, even though that tree is in the
ground and never root pruned. Have any of you ever heard of it?
Practiced it?
Sean O. spoke of it once when he said redwood trees could be turned into
hedges and kept relative low with repeated pruning. Don't you think this
could also be done with a fig? (She said hopefully)
Or am I just a garden fool!
Jan
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Jan Smithen,               gardening teacher 
                           California Arboretum Foundation
jansmithen@earthlink.net
Sunset zone : 19
USDA zone : 10

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