Hmmm, so it is actually an Italian word that refers to the actual brebas and not the fig type. Very interesting and thank you! So, would the word "Beefera" be the same meaning as "Bifara"? Depending what part of the boot Italians are from, there are so many different dialects that now it makes me wonder if Bifara and Beefera are the same meaning just spelled differently because of dialect differences. If only I could of retained the Italian my grandmother and family spoke when I was younger, I may have know this! LOL! So maybe there is no relation at all to Sicilian Bifara and Italian Beefera, and they only share the same type of breba habit and not the same type of fruit habit. I did see the Italian Beefera for sale from Adriano's Figs, but he only ships to Canada :( Maybe one day I will find it and can compare to the Sicilian Bifara just for fun. Again, very interesting info! I have read this forum for a long while, and just did not post much. But now I may start to come out of my shell and post more often! You guys are so knowledgable! Thank you so much! Christy

Hi G.M. Is the the tree you posted before under "Can Anyone Tell Me What This Is?" If so, I don't think that's what it is. The Yellowood has "pinnately" compound "elliptical" leaflets. Your photo has "bipinnately" compound "ovate" leaflets. Yellowood is only found in habitat in a few locations along the eastern border of Oklahoma along limestone cliffs and mountain valleys. It is considered rare in Oklahoma. Juvenile trees can be somewhat difficult to id by photo alone. One needs to use bark color and texture, twig color and structure, bud shape, flowers and fruit. Your best bet is studying your neighbors trees for a match. If there is more than one, dig it up, wash all soil off the roots completely, and take it to your county extension office. If the office isn't sure, they will send it to OSU for an expert opinion. randy

Looks like nice old yellowware... Let's see the bottom.

1818 Federal, here is one photo I snapped this morning, and I'm tossing in another I took last week (it shows our sunflower patch, part of our pond, et al, sorry): So the Oakleaf Hollies are the 2 on your right (the taller is a Hinoki Cypress I fell in love with, it was quite a bit larger, mature). The one to the furthest right has some brighter green twigs sprouting from the top - those just popped up this week. It's starting to form a pyramid shape. The one in the middle (between the furthest oakleaf and the hinoki) formed it's pyramid shape this winter. To see how much it's grown scroll up to my post dated June 27, 2018, last photo, it's the one in the middle. That's a 7 ft. privacy fence (we added later), but the trees are on raised berms... we cheated for height, lol! We ordered the smallest they had, and some have yet to from the pyramidal shape, as seen in the pic below (sorry for all the other stuff, first time to have a backyard and am taking pics of all my new seed-started flowers, pond we added, and patio - not seen here). Still, they've all continued to fill in tremendously, and bush out and up. I've yet to spray the hollies with anything. Speaking of cotton scale, a weeping ficus in the front yard almost died from it... I tried just about everything under the sun and after 2 years of failures it was looking dead. I used Bio Advanced 701615 12 Month Tree and Shrub Protect and Feed Concentrate. End of the 3rd summer the ficus was not only alive, it was the healthiest I'd ever seen it. Easy one-time treatment. I applied it for the next 2 years and stopped after that. No more problems. Then we cut that tree down to replace it with a Weeping Blue Atlas, LOL! I got tired of trimming that darned ficus in the heat! You said you wanted ground space, which is why I suggested 'no' on the Nellie Stevens. They get wide, and you can only trim back hollies to a certain degree. Too much and they not only look bare and woody, but they become prone to disease. Our yard is not large, and since we cut down the leylands, we added a patio, the pond, a couple berms, staggered trees on the berms, and a privacy fence. We're adding a large veggie garden this fall as well. We've decided enjoying the back yard is more important to us than privacy. We did plant a couple maples in discreet areas to hide some of the houses on a hill above us, and a Forest Pansy Redbud... but the house directly behind us added a second story unbeknownst to us, which we discovered after we cut the leylands. It's right in our faces, but I don't care now. I have my grill area, goldfish to enjoy, flowers, and some years down the road, some privacy. Even staggard, those Oakleaf Hollies will eventually grow together and outward, covering the majority of the berms.