Awesome!

That IS on UP there...there's actually space enough to see under it! lol

DH done good! Props to da man!

By the way...remember this?
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Looks great.

You can use barbed wire also, it's strong and has the advantage that the pots don't slide around so much.

Never thought of barbed wire in that capacity before,I'll have to remember that! Thanks Alison! :)

Wire is really useful stuff. Imagine a mobile with hanging baskets as counterweights. Chlorophytum would be a must in a set-up like that,in fact I could see an entire mobile dedicated to spiders...not that a host of other plants would work as well...sky's the limit! ;)

Hey, TY for showing that pic again. When plants come inside, it'll be a little diff, don't want to put holes in the ceiling here so will be putting closet-rod type bars along the top of the windows. If they're strong enough, I'll be finagling diff heights to squeeze more in.

I'm down with the mobile idea, but you can keep all of the spider plants!

Alison, barbed wire is a brilliant idea, TYVM!

I snagged a copy of the pic below from FB. Don't know that we'll need something like that, but should inspire others who don't want to or can't put holes in the ceiling.

The reason we don't want to is because it's old wood slats (115 yrs old.)

Find the joists in your ceiling and you shouldn't have any problems. This spans about ten feet. Use 1" bamboo.

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Dellis, that looks fantastic! TY for sharing this cool idea. I'd love to hear more about that ice-cream cone shaped pot. Your Monstera is amazing!!!!!

I think the slats alone are probably strong enough to hold plants, they don't build houses like this now, but they're 10 ft. high, and we don't want to make holes in the wood.

Oh, forgot to say above, anybody who has pics of hanging their plants, please share!

Finally cooled off enough to spend enough time outside to finagle staggering the heights of these pots.

Some pots hanging out with our napping dog.

Asleep, at the far R, that's the pot where the Cryptanthus you sent is pot-sharing with Billbrgia. Since I have a spot now, I replaced the broken hanging thing and got it hoisted.

Just pot crazy!

Very cool,Purp!

Love the stagger!

Makes for a privacy fence of sorts. lol :)

The ceiling in that room is nine feet high so it wasn't difficult to hang the poles. Even a wood slat ceiling would have joist above them but I can understand not wanting to drill holes in it. An idea you'd might like is to build supporting columns to hold the horizontal poles while at the same time giving viney type things to climb up to it.

Yep big cone shaped hanging basket, gotta couple of them. not much more to say about it than that.

That big plant is a Rhaphidophora tetrasperma, the so-called "mini monstera" The pot is on the floor and reaches almost to the ceiling.

Um, that's not mini at all! I didn't know Rhaph tet could get that big. Do you give it V-iagra? Thought I had room to keep one indefinitely, but your pic is cause to dispute that. ...so it's 9 feet tall?

Maybe DH will warm up to the idea - the thought of plants using all of the space above our heads is one that runs through my mind often. And it's only a hole when you take the bolts OUT, right?

Ice cream pot, well, what's it made of? That was my main curiosity. Where do you find a pot like that?

...and when/if the bolts are out,the holes can be filled with wood putty...easy peasy! Bat you eyelashes at him...that should help. ;)

When I got that plant it was just a few leaves sticking out of the soil, I forget how long ago that was, somewhere between 7 & 10 years ago. The pot is a 14" which I guess it's about a foot high so the Rhaph is about eight. It almost touches the ceiling. I don't give it B-Pills but even though it grows in a soil mix I do give it a Hydroponic nutrient solution every month or two.

The cone baskets are sisal or wicker or something like that. I line them with heavy plastic and fill them with moss or LECA to use as passive-hydro containers. My girlfriend bought them because my tastes for things like that are more eccentric and pedestrian (ie; Interesting) and she didn't like me making pots out of cans or buckets or whatever I could find at the time I needed to pot something up in.

She bought them at a place called Adams & son which is a small independent garden center near us. I've never seen them at any of the big places.

In regards to you ceiling, If you find the joists, you drill a small hole where you want the hook to be into the solid wood of the joist, you don't want to hit a hollow space. Then you use a thing called a hanger bolt which has one end with a wood screw type deal on one end and a bolt thread on the other. With this it is very easy to hang and then remove at a later date with as little damage as possible. Then ya whip out the wood putty and paint and it's gone forever.

Here's my hoya collection I have started again. I have two hooks in the ceiling, two lengths of chain attached to a wooden broom handle.

Our new front porch is still under construction but the bottoms of the support posts have been replaced & some new hanging bars (fence rails) installed between them. Getting a little late in the year, but should be a new "wall of foliage" next summer!

I do use staggered hanging baskets for a "privacy fence" effect in my upstairs bathroom! The almost three feet long Anthurium leaves do the rest. Sorry for the lighting, it's really bright outside.

Nice! A 2nd row of bars is added. Ignore the mess & the fact that this stuff isn't painted yet. Wanted to get everything done first, then paint all @ the same time. Will be a total wall of foliage next summer.

I never realized that Alabama was such a beautiful place. America's hidden gem!

The plant wizard at work ;)

TY for the kind compliments. The older top part of the posts are 115 yrs old, like the rest of the house. I've been having a blast with what my awesome DH did with these bars. Going to build a raised planter right in front of this. Think I've gathered enough bricks...

New steps DH built yesterday. The "we will have a front porch again" and "tunnel of foliage" dreams are coming true!

That's awesome, Tiffany!

I have to admit, those stairs make me a little envious! What is that purple flowering thing on the far right sitting on the top step/porch?

oh, it's actually two plants, one with green and one with purple foliage. Still...what are they?

do you have a list of all the plants you have? I know lots of people (especially succulent people) are very stringent about their databases.

and also: where do you put them in the winter!

P.s. I don't actually expect a list of everything you have....just if you HAPPEN to have a it *laying around*

TYVM! I think you might be asking about this pot? It has a mystery palm (so similar to parlor palm, Chamaedorea elegans, but is different,) Tradescantia zebrina (WJ,) and Gibasis geniculata (Tahitian bridal veil.)

In the winter, um, I just try to hang/squeeze everybody near a window. Furniture is re-arranged, nick-nacks put away... luckily winter is pretty short here, 3-4 mos. When I lived in OH I had a basement, with fluorescent lights.

Plant list is here, so much easier than the spreadsheet I used to use, but can't sort data in interesting ways (which I rarely did anyway): http://allthingsplants.com/lists/view/purpleinopp/?status[Have]=on&genus=&submit=Update+view

How do you handle when people ask you how many plants you have? How do they react?

Man, why does no one talk about AlaBama and how awesome their weather is? Am missing something here? What's wrong with Alabama? I'm really feeling the need to move there.