In The Garden: Is it a garden plant or a weed?

My wife and I are setting up gardens in our new home and we bought a lot of plants from several different mail order companies - we do not remember this one and we can not seem to find it on any of the websites we ordered from but there is no other plant like it on our 6 acre property.


Do the question is - it is a perennial or a weed and will it survive a zone 6 winter and how big will it get? It had no flowers that we noticed this year and the plant behind it with the white edged leaves is a wigelia.



Thanks

Roy

this should have the picture attached to it

 

Sorry, the pic is too small to identify the plant - can you post a larger one?

 

i agree, the pic is awfully small and it's hard to see the leaves well enough.

that said, even with all that, i think this thread might be helpful...from what i can see, what you have looks very similar.

http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=45458

 

here is a larger picture. but I an pretty sure that you are right

the each leaf on the stalk./cane is 90 degrees off from the last one so the 4th leaf up is in the same postion on the trunk

 

Ficus carica.

 

Ficus carica is the edible fig, a half-hardy shrub. Figs never produce showy flowers. It survives to zone 6 during mild winters. In extremely cold winters, it will die back to the ground or may even die completely if not protected.