Garden on Trees

[dukeofdoom]

Came across this thread about growing succulents in trees and thought other people may find it interesting.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load ... 19126.html


Here's a video someone doing that in their garden.

Succulents, Bromeliads, Orchids, Ferns, and Spanish Moss on trees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBwKtVMo ... IZmFslfB7g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyCz7wh5 ... IZmFslfB7g

[TimMAz6]

I'm running out of space........I may need to try this.

[canadianplant]

Vertical space is usually wasted in most peoples gardens. This is a good idea to fit more into the same space. The only problem Im seeing (for us up here), is that the majourity of the plants shown are tropical/subtropical/ subtropical desert species which will have a hell of a time adapting to our climate up here. I have heard of spanish moss growing in the niagra region though.

Lots of the hardy orchids are more or less terrestrial. I wouldnt be too surprised of you found a few "epiphytic" hardy ferns like asplenium. In reality you wont know till you try right?

[igor.glukhovtsev]

Jesse, you might try planting some stonecrops or sempervirums into hollow of a tree trunk. they do not require a lot of water but light.

[dukeofdoom]

There's no video showing how he actually attaches these plants to the tree. I'm curious if he uses soil.

The closes I found is this one where he mounts Staghorn Fern and it does have soil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hK5hjEc ... 7g&index=4

[lucky1]

People use wires to tie, for example, Tillandsia to bark/log segments.

Orchids just sit in the crotch of tree branches.
Their roots need air and humidity, so unless they're terrestrial orchids, no soil is needed.

Barb