On it I'm growing a Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Theta'.
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.
One more example from my garden. Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Ogon Nishiki' on a Tetrapanax papyrifer trunk...
New growth has an orange tint to it in the cooler months, this time of year I don't see much of that.
It's still growing though, up up up...
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...
The plant is Euonymus fortunei 'Kewensis', but I didn't look up to see what the trunk it's growing on belongs to.
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.
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)
There were at least three pots of nepenthes tucked in there...
With (I think) some Marcia Donahue or Dustin Gimbel ceramic pieces.
A few phlebodium were growing without pots in the pockets at the base of the palm fronds.
In addition to a few ferns I couldn't ID.
I loved the crazy "all in-ness" of it.
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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Ha! Foolish me - I saw the title of this post in my feed and thought the trunk you were referring to must refer to the the luggage sort. Covid must be messing with my brain given my failure to factor in whose post this was. I love what you've done with your trunks! I'm disappointed I missed the trunk sighting at Windcliff. Sherman Gardens has tucked bromeliads into palm trunks but that's the only "local" example I've seen of making use of those opportunities down my way.
ReplyDeleteBromeliads in palm trunks are dreamy! Trunks of the luggage sort sound great for transporting plants, not so much for growing though.
DeleteI missed all those details in Dan's palm trunk. I need another tour! Also, yes to growing plants on tree trunks. I'll never forget the Nichols garden at the San Francisco Fling that had bromeliads attached to a tree -- magical! https://www.penick.net/digging/?p=22743
ReplyDeleteThe Nichols garden stands large in my Fling memories.
DeleteIt's a great way of adding more plants to your garden and they look good as well!
ReplyDeleteI visited Kev Spence's (from the old Growing on the Edge forum) garden last summer and he had Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Theta' growing in a similar fashion.
Needless to say I bought one earlier this summer!
Let's see how it does over the winter :)
Fingers crossed for your Theta!
DeleteClearly I have no been taking advantage of my vertical surfaces-such as they are. I especially love the Passiflora action on the palm.
ReplyDeleteWell hopefully you're going to right that wrong now that you've realized it.
DeletePassiflora lutea growing up Trachycarpus fortunei is a thing of beauty.
ReplyDeleteIs Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Ogon Nishiki' growing in the ground or a pot? It has the most gorgeous leaf coloration.
Chavli
That particular 'Ogon Nishiki' is growing in a large stock tank (same for the tetrapanax), I have others in the ground. It's a great plant!
DeleteIt is pretty difficult to do anything like that here in Phoenix, except sometimes I see native Opuntia growing in palm trees and other desert plants! I love all the layering you posted about though!
ReplyDeleteI love the opuntia in a palm thing! I remember seeing one growing on a regular shade tree at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum too.
DeleteDarn, my previous post didn't show my name. Did you get it? Ugh!
ReplyDeleteAnytime someone mentions Phoenix I'm pretty sure it's you.
DeleteThis makes me ache to go out and plant in the trunks and crevices of every tree. Or wish I was 8 with a Barbie to climb the passiflora lutea. Love.
ReplyDeleteThe next time I go out to the back garden I will picture you and your Barbie playing on the palm trunk!
DeleteSurprisingly hairy Trachycarpus fortunei 'Wagnerianus'. Has me thinking of Bumble, the abominable snowmonster from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I need to move my Euonymus 'Kewensis' so it can do a similar thing to a tree or two around here. I wasn't expecting it to be so clingy.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen trachycarpus trunks stripped of their hair? They look so tiny and vulnerable to me.
DeleteUgh. No thanks. Sounds like shaving a cat. Who has time to shave their palms?
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