The Serenoa repens, in the lot next to my house, and the Pothos, a scrap from one of the house plants that got tossed in the woods next to my house, about 20 years ago, has really made ground with all the rain we've had this year, noticed how prolific it was, when I went to pic saw palmetto fruit...
Epipremnum aureum ('pothos') is an aggressive grower & not really a good climber for palms. It branches readily and can cover the host. I let slower or smaller growing aroids climb my palms (like Monstera deliciosa, Rhaphidophora tetrasperma, etc). Large fast growers (E. aureum & E. pinnatum) are better suited to climbing tall straight pines & other conifers.
Plant some golden pothos to climb the tree in summer for instant tropical look. They should come back every spring. I have a Sabal bermudana which is doing great also. Looks a bit nicer than palmetto. Awesome. Thanks for the advice. I was thinking about putting a pothos on that big oak tree. I see them around and looking good.
About half of the palms cultivated in the area are defoliated. The first batch of pictures is from roaming around Turkey Creek in Palm Bay, of damaged plants that grow wild. Here are freeze damaged giant leather fern (Acrostichum danaeifolium), Florida Butterfly Orchid (Encyclia tampensis), and Golden Pothos (Epipremnum aureum)
At our current home, a few things survived (all unprotected): a huge neglected clump of bananas, some kind of costus that was growing wild all over the back yard, a huge shefflera umbrella tree, and pothos (epipremnum) climbing the oak.