Annette.... Growing fig trees is probably one of the easiest, and most delicious things you could do. Decide whether in ground, or containerized. Decide on location. (Full-sun, and heat, is good) Figs grow/develop on new wood, so prune if you must to control growth. Read postings on this forum about when/where to prune, and pinch new growth. The winter will be your problem. If containerized, and heavy...buy a dolly @ Home Depot and roll the plant(s) around. Read postings on winter storage/dormancy. Buying a twig/small, rooted-cuttings is a waste of time. Get a bearing-age tree, and you'll have fruit this year. Check your local garden centers for good trees. Twigs die out if not grown perfectly, and in the long run, you'll get more bang for the buck by starting off with a larger plant. I grow my 6 foot tall, single-stem trees in large storage tubs (with drainage holes), and all branches are grown at the top of the long bare trunks. I roll the trees around on dollies. This saves the back, and I'm hernia free. If you can store the trees (containerized) in an unheated garage or dark, cool, storage shed you'll probably solve your winter problems. Buy a short-season fig variety. If at a bearing age, and growing vigorously, pinch back new growth to 6 leaves on each branch for earlier ripening of main-crop figs. You'll be chowin' down on figs by September, or earlier! Seriously, this forum is the only place to get good, solid, up-to-date, fig-growing information. If you are going to buy figs through the mail, stay away, no...run away! from Ty-Ty, and Willis Orchards. Why?...search this forum. Also, west-coast nurseries are known for selling fig trees with mosaic virus. I learned the hard way. I personally have grown only one short-season variety called "Atreano"...which makes a very large, golden-yellow fig that's really sweet... if, ripened correctly. Do a search for this excellent, smaller-growing fig variety. It's a good start. Deer might not be a problem, but birds could be! Hope this helps you decide what to do. Read everything about growing figs on this forum, then decide how you will want to grow the tree(s)...then, go shopping. It's fun, and you'll be hooked. We were all normal once. : ) : ) BronxFigs

I really like the new page. I think it is much easier to see things than before. It seems so much better organized. Each list is visible on one screen. You don't have to scroll down to see part of the list. I didn't ever look at the alphabetical list of all forums. I was just data, not information, as far as I was concerned. I found this forum that way and I had not noticed it in 2 years of reading forums.

This just happened to me, too. On Chrome, for some reason, I had to sign in (usually I am always signed in) and when I did, my bookmarks for GW didn't work. So when signed in, clicked on Your Houzz and under my name/account I went to activity. It showed where I'd commented on GW threads, so I clicked on a thread from there. Then, when I was in GW (but in a specific thread, not just the forum page), I went to the browser bar, deleted the actual name of the thread, but kept the www.gardenweb.com. (Like I deleted everything after .com here: https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5058837/help-getting-on-gardenweb-home-decorating-forum-not-conversations#21448682.) That took me to the GW home page and I bookmarked that. Once I was back on GW, my old bookmarks began working properly again.

IIRC (from just a couple of days ago, when life was relatively normal ;), in the area that now says 'Your topics' and 'Explore Topics', top left, it previously had Garden forums, or Home forums, or All Discussions as options, and clicking on a button brought up the list of forums, so in that respect it hasn't changed. It would have been nice if Houzz had included some instructions ahead of time--a lot of angst could have been avoided.