Plants on plants, it's one of my favorite things. I've been pretty darn happy with the way my Passiflora lutea looks this year, growing up the trunk of my Trachycarpus fortunei.![]()
It dies back to the ground every winter, but then BAM! reappears with a vengeance in the spring. The flowers are tiny though, about the size of the end of my pinky finger. So while they're fun, the foliage is what it's all about.
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The same vines help to cloak the bare trunks of my Rhododendron sinograde, and in the mix somewhere is a Bomaria species vine, it seems to have been knocked back pretty bad by our crazy winter, but I'm happy it's making an appearance.
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Moving over to another trachy, this one a Trachycarpus fortunei 'Wagnerianus', also with a hairy trunk.![]()
On it I'm growing a Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Theta'.
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I bought them (the jasmine, but actually the palm too) as tiny things so it's nice to see them making progress up the trunk.
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One more example from my garden. Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Ogon Nishiki' on a Tetrapanax papyrifer trunk...
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New growth has an orange tint to it in the cooler months, this time of year I don't see much of that.
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It's still growing though, up up up...
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I spotted a couple of Garden Fling hosts who were also growing plants on the trunks of their plants. This one was in Nancy Heckler's garden...
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The plant is Euonymus fortunei 'Kewensis', but I didn't look up to see what the trunk it's growing on belongs to.
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In Dan Hinkley's garden (Windcliff) I was more interested in the plants growing in the containers against the house and under the palm (a butia I think), than the palm itself.
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That is until I turned around and saw the trunk...wowsa! Dan, what are you up to!?! (note: that's plastic on the ground in the distance, solarizing the soil and helping to prep for new plantings)
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There were at least three pots of nepenthes tucked in there...
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With (I think) some Marcia Donahue or Dustin Gimbel ceramic pieces.
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A few phlebodium were growing without pots in the pockets at the base of the palm fronds.
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In addition to a few ferns I couldn't ID.
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I loved the crazy "all in-ness" of it.
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There was also a pyrrosia at the base, I keep meaning to try one of those tucked into tree here in my garden. Oh the possibilities!
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