When I lived in Pascagoula, Mississippi, I built a house with a 24' ceiling in the "great room". The house was 2 blocks from the Gulf of Mexico. There was a circular stairway going up that expanse and at the base, in a tiled 10'x10' tiled "plant" area, I had a Benjamin fucus. When we moved in it was a 6' plant. When I sold the house, 16 years later, that ficus was up to the ceiling, inside the house. Kind of neat to have a tree that size in the middle of your great room. Hurricane Katrina, ten years later, destroyed the plant but not the house. Life is full of highs and lows, but going back after Katrina, and seeing the loss of so many homes, plants, and yes, lives, really brings home the fact that we need to treat each and every day like it will be our last. I'm sorry if I have become somewhat melancohly. Another hurricane has struck my beloved Gulf coast and I still have many friends there.
