Tropicals & Tender Perennials: No rambling roses here, 4 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Of course here roses wouldn't have "a snowflakes chance in hell" of surviving. So the job of 'rambling' has to be done by other plants.

And to paraphrase another saying, 'One man's house plant is another man's garden plant'. This thread is to show some of the potential of a number of the vining/climbing/epiphytic aroids which some people are used to seeing as house plants and others have as garden plants.

They are a bit like kids kept indoors - confined, subdued, looking longingly out of the windows.

But when released into the outdoors they explode into a riot of fun and activity. Except, no noise! What a blessing!

So here's some photos of my rampant Aroids, not in any particular order other than the sequence they were taken.


The first is Philodendron erubescens, a reasonably fast grower but not overwhelmingly so. Once it clumps up on a tree trunk it looks quite nice.

Second isn't a fast grower but is still moves along. Can't remember it's name, I think it was something like Philo. "Black Knight", but don't quote me on that.

Next is Golden Pothos, my second most prolific rambler. The tall trees in the photo are between 20 to 25 metres tall, the Pothos is up around the 18 to 20 metre height and still moving up. In the fore ground are 2 palms with their trunks entirely covered with it.

Then there's Syngonium, my most invasive one although it doesn't get up as high as the Pothos. This is a young plant with juvenile leaves. Later the leaves become more palmate.