Yes, you certainly have more options when placing your plants directly onto trees. You are going directly to what nature has supplied for your "mounts". I have to be a bit more careful and am limited as to what I can do, since I am mounting to woods that generally will be hung from some sort of wall or other structure. All I can use my oak trees for is to hang mounted plants or orchids pots in 18x18" square wooden baskets (which I make). I have approximately 100 plants hanging from oak tree trunks and limbs. I dread it when fall gets here and I have to bring all my plants inside.