What a neat shaped limb! and a great idea for the greenhouse.

Take some pictures this winter for us....we will be growing deprived in some places.

Nell, that limb is going to look spectacular when planted up, you can't beat using tree limbs for that "natural" look. We once found a small dead Arbutus tree with spreading branches which once anchored at the top of our driveway I used for Fuchsia baskets. Please show us a pic when you get it planted up.

Annette

I love it! Looks like a dancing figure - poetry in motion.
How heavy was it? Did you do it yourself?
Good luck with the climbers Nell!
~Natalie

I had to laugh when I read about your "little" greenhouse, and thought out loud, "Well, it's big enough for a 12 foot tree branch!" LOL

Thanks for bringing us inside that little green house, and please invite us back!

Sue

OK, Nell - I hate you!!! kidding, but you know!!!! That tree is perfectly sculptural. I can so see epiphites, vines, etc., going up that lovely bit of tree. What temperature will you be able to maintain in there?? That's what makes the challenge here!!!

Nancy.

The challenge here is not so much to keep the temperature UP, but to keep it down when the sun shines. I have water barrels to mediate the ups and downs, an electric heater for the coldest nights and a kerosene heater for that one time in February when it's going to be in the low teens outside.

Two feet of the limb went into the ground, Sue, so it's only ten feet and curved at that. There was lots of measuring beforehand, to be sure I chose one that fit.

It was cut last year, so it's dry, Natalie, and not so heavy I couldn't drag it in and prop the end on one of the posts that holds the electrical boxes while I maneuvered the heavy end into the hole I dug.

I'll let you all know how it progresses and there will be photos if there is anything to see. Thanks, all of you.

Nell

What is an epiphyte? It is a nicely shaped limb, I hope it works out as you envision, Nell.

Lorna

Nell, that is already great but it will be super beautiful planted and lush, especially this winter. What a great idea.

An epiphyte is a plant that uses another plant, dead or living, for support while getting its nutrients from water and debris that falls on it.

Resurrection fern and certain other ferns, mosses, lichens and Spanish moss are epiphytes native here.

More exotic epis include orchids, bromeliads, staghorn ferns and those little tillandsias you see in garden centers. I won't be growing orchids.