Beginner Gardening: Trying to save some tall, woody plants please help, 1 by publicradio

publicradio wrote:
Hello,

I have a few plants I inherited that I am trying to keep alive. A few of them are what look like ficuses, that I obtained over three months ago. After a couple weeks the leaves on these plants dried out completely and became crispy, but not all fell off. When I scratch the bark on these plants, the stem underneath is still green and seemingly alive. However there are no budding leaves at all.

They have been moved to a very bright southwest facing room with big windows and I have been watering them weekly so the soil is saturated. I want to know if there is any way to salvage these plants so that the leaves will come back.

I have a couple more plant related questions but I am not sure if this forum will allow me to post multiple thumbnails so that's all for right now. Thanks so much in advance.