Long-distance MBS member David Sturdivant has posed a question to us regarding a funky little ficus.The text is below.  Send your reponses to Fred or me and we'll forward to David.
 
Attached are pics of my trees and of snow here in cloudy/cold/snowy Cleveland Ohio. We got 10.8" of awesome snow yesterday!

Note the bizarre shape of the "trunk" (?). What do u suggest design-wise, toward continuing with that "funky trunk"? The variegated ficus pic is six months old. The trunk is thickening faster than any other benjamina species i've seen, and sheds very little, despite constant cloudcover (one sunny day in past 30days).

I have a large East-facing balcony on the 8th floor, right on Lake Erie's shore....see photo.

Say hi to Tom and all the members 4me.
Thanks - David