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My new favorite thing in our house is a living and breathing (no, not a puppy) Fiddle Leaf Fig! I have long wanted one of these pretty trees with big, shiny leaves, and our mother-in-law was kind enough to give us one this week. One of my favorite things about these trees is the fact that since their leaves are so big, they add a big dose of color.
In case you're interested in getting one of your own, I actually found one online after searching at a couple of area nurseries. They like quite a bit of light and enjoy humidity (bingo...cuz I got that!), and they take about a small pitcher worth of water about once a week. Fiddle leaf figs also grow towards the light; so you need to rotate it every couple of months to ensure even growth.
Here's our little tree...hopefully soon to be accompanied by a gallery wall. Cross your fingers I can keep this baby alive!
Once again, I don't notice something I see all the time in magazines until you point it out. I love the fiddle fig and its big leaves. I haven't seen them here in SoCal, but maybe we don't have the humidity for them. I see that the ones in the pix have one stem/trunk and your baby has 3. Will you have to separate it at some point when it gets bigger or is it coming out of a single stalk down under the moss somewhere?
ReplyDeleteWow - you've been posting a ton this week! I need to catch up on all of your posts this weekend. Have a good one!
I had to search quite a few nurseries to find our fellow; so I bet they're somewhere in SoCal too!
ReplyDeleteI was also kind of surprised when our fellow showed up with so many stalks, but the person who delivered it said they are usually pruned quite a bit to look less leafy and taller ones tend to have less stalks. We like all the leaves (and I have NO idea how to prune something), but he said since they're slow-growing I probably won't have to worry about separating or pruning anything for a long time. But we'll see!