Benjamina...a little different

mistermoyogi

I've gotten mixed reviews on this one...thought I would share it here. It is a standard F. benjamina.

Regards,
Tom

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Sailor_Jerry

I'm not sure I've ever seen a windswept ficus, but I would imagine they exist in the wild. I love ficus, and that could grow on me. Nicely executed, how old is it?

kingkong

That is fine but I would like to see this more of a geotropic cause and effect. Wind load maybe but hanging off a cliff trying to correct itself works too as shown by Mr. Trout's creation.

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lagunamadre

Hi Tom. Thanks for sharing your trees, again, but as there are two 30 foot benjaminas growing next to my house, I have a problem with that one. I do like the pot though. Is it a pot , or a rock? Regards, Larry

mistermoyogi

Hi, Larry:

Good hearing from you...the container is a pot created by Dave Lowman.
Tom

treebeard55

I love it. Nothing unnecessary to the composition.

(And who says all Ficus have to be trained alike?)

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Gisbourne

Nice taper, nice nebari, it has potential. But it looks strange with the trunk bending sharply and splitting into two branches of equal thickness at the same level.

I would bend one of the branches up to continue the line of the trunk at least 50% higher before curving towards the right. Any branches on the new leader can be trained towards the right to develop the windswept look.

ficusfanatic

i tend to agree. it is missing something. the two equal arms make me think of a headless zombie. i don't want to make a joke of your tree but that's what i see when i look at it. i agree that it needs some variation in height.

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mistermoyogi

Thank you all for your input.

Regards,
Tom