Has anyone kept a fig tree outdoors in a seaside garden?

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Hs anyone successfully kept a fig tree in their garden in a seaside area without any sort of glass/green house.

Yes. We aren't on the sea front, but a 10min walk to the sea, SE England. Ours is in a very large pot on the patio. We had fruit last year (only got the tree soon before last summer) but have also noticed a scale thing on the leaves. I think its a caterpillar which eats the leaves flesh, leaving the veins behind. I don't think its anything to do with our location though. MIL is 20mins away and closer to the sea and has 2 massive trees, but in the ground.

Yes. SE, 5 mins walk from beach, thriving fig tree…. (In the ground, not a pot.)

I recall loads of them in Weston Super Mare.

We're 200m from the sea in East Sussex, we planted our fig tree over 40 years ago, it's huge and produces hundreds of figs every year. Constantly having to cut it back, blackbirds love the ripe figs and part from them it has never had any pest problems, we don't use any fertilisers and don't water it
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Loads of healthy looking fruit baring fig trees around here, in the ground. SE England.

We are on the south coast, 1.8 miles from the nearest beach. Our neighbour has a huge fig tree that overhangs in to our garden.