A few more for the group.
All are ficus p. and are Grow and Clip with the use of guy wires.
Wire damage to a ficus takes a while to correct.
Okay ---- these are the problems we have noted with ficus -
Only our local ficus and the simple Ficus b can be treated as normal trees, as branches and leaves go.
The others tend to be problematic in response the clipping, and branch density.
So as I have typed before, one can use the Chinese technique ---------- green hat with decorative roots.
Additional problems -
[1] No fine branching as the trees thicken very easily.
[2] Trunks keep fattening.
[3] Roots keep fattening.
So if you develop a design, it is doomed as time passes.
Unless you green hat and use roots placed where they will be attractive.
Our Ficus are trees, and there aren't an real examples of roots wrapping trees to kill the host.
The branches also weep.
So we are working on controlling the thickening.
Some starts ----------------
Good Day
Anthony
Trying to stay graceful -
Grown in hand rolled earthenware balls and aged compost -
Here is a shot of the root system and the balls.
One root too thick, may split or allow the others to come up to same size.
Found on a concrete wall, a whip and about 12 inches tall. No branching then.
mame" style