Here's Another One
Posted on January 8, 2026 8:00 AM by Gerry Trout
Here is my Golden Pathos. I got this plant when we moved here in 2004. It lives on top of a music speaker that is 24 inches high. At one point the vines crept along the floor, up the step, and continued up the wall toward the loft. That was really beautiful. And we left it to grow that way for a few years.
Then the lower leaves turned yellow and fell off, leaving the top leaves up high with only vines clinging to the wall. That was really ugly. It needed to go away. When I tried to detach the vines from the wall, the roots took the top layer of drywall with it. Yack!!! We had to repair the wall, then repaint that whole section going up the stairs to the loft.
We are very careful now to monitor the vines and make sure they don't attach themselves to ANYTHING.
Some things we just have to learn the hard way. I am telling you this story so you can learn the easy way. ;)
HAPPY GARDENING!!!