Climbers up Palms!

[Bilbo]

I am about to plant a 2/3 year old Passiflora antioquiensis up my Queen.

What do you think guys?:

a)Horrified

b)Great

c)Well its my garden and I have to live with it.

Actually do any of you guys already have climbers up palms or does the thought shock you?

Regardez amigos

Juan

[PalmGuyWC]

I have a couple of Queen palms, and their trunks were damaged in the big freeze of 89/90.  It took about 5 years before the outer layer of the trunks began to sluff off. The crowns of the palms look fine and their growth rates seem not to be affected.  I planted a passiflora at the base of each palm and put a screen around the damaged portion of the trunks so the vines had something to attach too.  Now I don't have to see the damaged trunks and I get to enjoy the flowering vines too.

Vines grow on some palm trunks in nature, so why not in your garden too?

Dick

[Walter John]

Covering a cocos palm sounds fine and dandy to me.

[www.dadluvsu.com]

I love the lush and tropical look of plants growing on plants...  If I could just get the dang landscapers to quit pulling them off the trunks, my yard might not look so bland!

[FossilNypa]

Passiflora flowers are great. Although I have never seen climbing plants on palms.

[ruskinPalms]

The dreaded Pothos vine can look good covering a queen palm trunk. Also Monstera deliciosa looks great climbing, or climbing Philodendrons. Beware though, any extra baggage on the palm can decrease wind resistance and make it susceptible to being blown over in a bad storm.

[ruskinPalms]

Nice jungly pics - albeit recycled from previous posts I've made:

[FossilNypa]

With ruskinPalms photos I remembered I have seen palms with climbing plants.

It was a Cocos nucifera with some Monstera, and it looked very good.