Plants on plants, at Opryland

On Monday I shared a walk through the conservatories at the Opryland Resort in Nashville, TN. Today we're going back to Opryland as I highlight one of my favorite things, plants growing on other plants, like this creeping fig, Ficus pumila, growing up a palm trunk.Just as exciting to me—maybe even more so—is when plants are mounted on a structure that would not otherwise have plants on it, like this metal support for an upper walkway.
Plants all the way up to the top!
There were so many mounted staghorn ferns at Opryland, I was amazed.
On rocks...

Another one mounted on a metal...
Not to be left out, there were bromeliads squeezed in between metal posts.
And ferns tucked into palm trunks.
Ferns and tillandsia that is, there's a whole garden in there!


More tillandsia in another palm trunk.
I loved this! A larger bromeliad mounted with what looks like a piece of another palm frond?
And a similar piece at use here, but flipped the other way.
Finally an orchid tucked into the crotch of a cordyline. This kind of planting requires attention to detail and I love that the gardeners here were up for it.